Studio Quotes

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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist. — Anna Deavere Smith
One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over. — Bruce Nauman
I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have… — Joan Miro
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of… — Walter J. Phillips
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... — Walter J. Phillips
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but… — Walter J. Phillips
Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. — Eric Maisel
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio. — Eric Maisel
The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how… — Eric Maisel
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in… — Cornelia Parker
I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and… — Paula Rego
It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the… — Tiesto
Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I… — Walter Darby Bannard
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio. — Robert Genn
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. — Wayne Thiebaud
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and… — Mark Kostabi
Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy. — Mark Kostabi
I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material… — E. J. Hughes
At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step… — E. J. Hughes
When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was… — Walt Disney

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