Grace Slick Quotes

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.