Frank Frazetta Quotes

I like creating images.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

I'm an image-maker.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

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

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

I start a picture and I finish it.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

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.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Making art is different for everyone.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.