Artschwager Quotes

#1. Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

Jerry Saltz

#2. Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

Jerry Saltz

#3. Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

Truman Capote

#4. I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

Paulo Coelho

#5. I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.

Richard Artschwager

#6. Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

Gary Miller

#7. I am someone who actually jumps headlong into everything and anything. I am not one of those people who likes to be scared; instead I have a tendency to be very, very open to everything. I really live; I love life.

Sonam Kapoor

#8. The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Richard Artschwager

#9. There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

Richard Artschwager

#10. If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Peter York

#11. Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

Steve Maraboli

#12. Love does not make you a fool.

Mitch Albom

#13. Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

Richard Artschwager

#14. I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

Richard Artschwager

#15. studies have determined that happiness functions as the cause, not just the result, of good health.

Shawn Achor

#16. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

#17. I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

Elaine Paige

#18. My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

Richard Artschwager

#19. At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

Lewis Thomas