Jenny Saville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side
-- Jenny Saville

#Sides
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, VelÃ¡squez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.
-- Jenny Saville

#Art #Men #Body
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.
-- Jenny Saville

#Running #Art #Thinking
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.
-- Jenny Saville

#Art #Children #Thinking
I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
-- Jenny Saville

#Play #Anxiety #Brilliant
If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.
-- Jenny Saville

#Flesh #Want #Narrative
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.
-- Jenny Saville

#People #Childhood #Intellectual
There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.
-- Jenny Saville

#Inspirational #Beauty #Beautiful

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.
The only serious side-effect of #â€Ž ***** is that you might get arrested.
You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.
I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

Jenny Saville famous quotes

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