Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischlis an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. His wife is painter April Gornik...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth9 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
express hierarchy others people
I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
artists create experience painting scale truth
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
artists believe connects everybody experience gives
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
art creativity excitement hope time
I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.
primary
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
empathy alive connecting
Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.