Top 30 Kostabi's Quotes
#1. I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.
Andy Behrman
#2. Facebook this week announced that it's experimenting with a tag that will mark sites such as the Onion, Clickhole and Empire News as satire and, hopefully, alert the millions of gullible people who share information from these sites as truth each week.
Anonymous
#3. The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing ... Get press not stress.
Mark Kostabi
#4. A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.
Mark Kostabi
#6. All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.
Drew Fuller
#7. Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense ...
Mark Kostabi
#8. Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.
Mark Kostabi
#11. I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
Gloria Steinem
#12. Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.
LeCrae
#13. Oak, granite,
Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing
Clover hills,
Remember me?
Sister, child,
Grown tall,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Gail Carson Levine
#14. Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.
Mark Kostabi
#15. Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.
Mark Kostabi
#16. As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free ... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.
Mark Kostabi
#17. I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
Rachael Ray
#18. There has not been a time where in that moment with you, on you, in you, I have not felt I was the luckiest man alive.
Todd Johnson
#19. For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.
Mark Kostabi
#20. I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.
Mark Kostabi
#21. There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment.
Mark Kostabi
#22. I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun ... I continue to be an artist ... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.
Mark Kostabi
#23. Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.
Mark Kostabi
#24. One secret to my success is that I am faithful to my dreams and don't cheat on my dreams by taking drugs or blaming others when things don't go right.
Mark Kostabi
#25. No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.
Mark Kostabi
#26. I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter ... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.
Mark Kostabi
#28. I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them.
Mark Kostabi
#29. Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
Mark Kostabi
#30. It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
Mark Kostabi
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