Wayne White Quotes

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.