Eric Fischl

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show…

— Eric Fischl

I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound.…

— Eric Fischl

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one…

— Eric Fischl

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

— Eric Fischl

Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.

— Eric Fischl

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives…

— Eric Fischl

Art should create an experience.

— Eric Fischl

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent…

— Eric Fischl

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

— Eric Fischl

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to…

— Eric Fischl

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that…

— Eric Fischl

Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through…

— Eric Fischl

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all…

— Eric Fischl

The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do…

— Eric Fischl

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the…

— Eric Fischl

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

— Eric Fischl

I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that…

— Eric Fischl

There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you…

— Eric Fischl

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

— Eric Fischl

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just…

— Eric Fischl

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

— Eric Fischl