If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
