Artschwager's 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. 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

#3. Only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

Alison Croggon

#4. The word should be thinkering.

Michael Ondaatje

#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. Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

Naomi Wood

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

Richard Artschwager

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

Richard Artschwager

#9. This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.

Beth Broderick

#10. It's hard to be sad when you're being useful.

Noah Hawley

#11. The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Richard Artschwager

#13. But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.

Hugh Shelton

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.

Asger Jorn

#17. That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.

Patricia Clarkson