Eric Fischl Quotes
- Abstraction is an esoteric language.
- 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 things…
- Art should create an experience.
- Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.
- What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.
- 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 bleeding…
- 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 sexual…
- If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
- 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 the…
- Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
- Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.
- My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a…