Ivan Eyre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

  • Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

  • You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

  • I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

  • Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

  • My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

  • It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

  • Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

  • It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

  • It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.