Richard Artschwager Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes and trying any old thing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#3. Emerson pointed out, The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

Bohdi Sanders

#4. No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Louis D. Brandeis

#5. Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

Peggy Guggenheim

#6. 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

#7. You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.

Pope Francis

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

Richard Artschwager

#10. Valkyrie, if there was ever a cradle to be robbed ... Gods, just look at him." ...
... "Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop

Kresley Cole

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

Richard Artschwager

#12. The bad things don't define us, it's what we make of them that does. Turn a negative into a positive, that kind of thing.

Micalea Smeltzer

#13. I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.

Kristin Chenoweth

#14. Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Monica Crowley

#15. Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. 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

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

Richard Artschwager

#18. You feel like a steel door has been locked; you're banging, but they just can't hear you. And being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in.

Mitch Albom

#19. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

Bell Hooks

#20. The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

Michael Scott

#21. The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August.
God, middle age is an unending insult.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#22. 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