“There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about audience?" they would probably say, "I don't think about audience, I only think about my work," yet the audience is such an important part.” IfsThinkingWorldArtImportantArtistAudienceConversationDisdainArt World Author:Eric Fischl
“Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldBelieveArtCareSpiritualArtistDifferencesSeeingTroubleTruth IsDon't BelieveEntertainmentDistinctionVersusSaying The TruthArt Life Author:Eric Fischl
“One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.” WorldArtSportsAudienceMusicianAthleteThings I LoveArt World Author:Eric Fischl
“The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.” ShouldBelieveArtMadeDifferentReasonEnoughPurposeCoursesArt IsWork OutObligationMake SenseFar AwayPurpose Of Art Author:Eric Fischl
“I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.” ThinkingBelieveMeanArtShowsSocialCelebrateOur RelationshipGlue Author:Eric Fischl
“Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.” ArtFeltEmotionClassBoysMiddleCoupleAuthorityRacismSurfaceTensionMiddle ClassSarcasticUnhappinessCynicalInherentMessyTabooBad BoyLife MeansAmbivalentContemptuousBelow The SurfaceFallouts Author:Eric Fischl
“If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.” IfsArtWorryArt Is Author:Eric Fischl
