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
beauty problem nudity
Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.
artist
What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.
education artist generations
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
spiritual art believe
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.
should-have hell precision
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.
character thinking opening-up
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.
sports art athlete
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.
empathy alive connecting
Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.