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“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.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Art #Believe #Mean
“Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Beauty #Problem #Nudity
“Abstraction is an esoteric language.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Esoteric #Painting #Language
“Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Education #Artist #Generations
“A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Hell #Should #Precision
“If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Art #Worry #Art Is
“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.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Sarcastic #Art #Couple
“I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Character #Thinking #Opening Up
“What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Artist
“Art should create an experience.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Art #Should
“Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.”
-- Eric Fischl

#Responsibility #Joy #Joyful

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