Top 25 Fischl Quotes
#1. For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
Elliot Richardson
#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
#6. Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
Eric Fischl
#7. If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
Eric Fischl
#8. You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.
Steve Harvey
#9. Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.
Eric Fischl
#10. I'd like to get this lunch through with so I can go fuck this beautiful, hot, sexy as hell woman into blissful oblivion all afternoon.
Deborah Ann
#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. 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
#13. I could still taste and smell and hear and see," she said. "I could still learn and I could still teach. I could still love and be loved. I had my mind and my spirit. And I had you.
Elizabeth Berg
#14. It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.
Barack Obama
#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. The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.
David Leitch
#20. Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.
Eric Fischl
#21. 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
#22. I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.
Eric Fischl
#23. 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
#25. Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.
Eric Fischl
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