Catherine Stock famous quotes

Art is a business, like any other.
-- Catherine Stock

#Art #Art Is

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.
-- Catherine Stock

#Thinking #Essentials #Periods

My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.
-- Catherine Stock

#Quality #Energy #Needs

If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.
-- Catherine Stock

#Growth #Complacent #Grows

The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind... Only when I am totally immersed... absorbed in work... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.
-- Catherine Stock

#Doe #Kind #Muse

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.
-- Catherine Stock

#Giving #Goal #Perfection

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.
-- Catherine Stock

#People #Village #Gallery

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.