Top 24 Eric Fischl Quotes
#1. Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.
Eric Fischl
#2. Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
Eric Fischl
#3. A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.
Eric Fischl
#5. One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.
Eric Fischl
#7. He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.
Pete Carroll
#8. Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
Eric Fischl
#9. If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
Eric Fischl
#10. Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.
Eric Fischl
#11. The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
Eric Fischl
#12. California is very much my home, and has been for the last eight yeas. It doesn't matter where I am, the inner me stays the same, home is wherever I happen to be living with Tracey, my companion of the last eighteen years.
Brian Williams
#13. Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.
Eric Fischl
#14. Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
Ethan Zuckerman
#15. What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.
Eric Fischl
#16. My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
Eric Fischl
#17. I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
Eric Fischl
#18. I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.
Eric Fischl
#19. Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.
Eric Fischl
#20. I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.
Eric Fischl
#21. I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.
Eric Fischl
#22. There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about audience?" they would probably say, "I don't think about audience, I only think about my work," yet the audience is such an important part.
Eric Fischl
#23. Analysts said Boko Haram's move came as no surprise.
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