Mati Klarwein famous quotes

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.
-- Mati Klarwein

#Artist

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
-- Mati Klarwein

#Might #Window #Thousand

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.
-- Mati Klarwein

#Painting #Paint

There was a time when I dreamed of sex, and then I dreamed of drugs. Soon I will be dreaming light...
-- Mati Klarwein

#Dream #Sex #Light

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category.
-- Mati Klarwein

#Thinking #Artwork #Made

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.