Tory Burch Quotes

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything. I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

I need art around me always.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I have so much love for art.

When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

There are so many artists that have inspired me.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.