Chris Lockhart > Chris's Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Curiosity is the main energy...”
― Robert Rauschenberg

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.

- 1959, from a catalogue”
― Robert Rauschenberg

“You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.”
― Henri Matisse

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

“An empty canvas is full.”
― Robert Rauschenberg

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.”
― Andy Warhol, A Retrospective

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe