Alex Alvis Art

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist. ~Eric Fischl

©Eric Fischl - Booth #1 Oldenburg’s Sneakers

What does that represent?  There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything.  It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.  ~Fernand Leger

©Fernand Lager - A Vision of the Contemporary City

In the arts there are many right answers.  I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through . . . . Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.  ~Jerry Uelsmann

©Jerry Uelsmann - Untitled 1987

The trouble with recognizable art is that it excludes too much.  I want my work to include more.  And 'more' also comprises one's doubts about the object, plus the problem, the dilemma of recognizing it.  ~Philip Guston

©Philip Guston - Head and Bottle

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin.  Anything goes.  ~Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson's Glass House

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.  ~Robert Motherwell

© Robert Motherwell - Black on White

If you make pictures you are bound to be an abstract painter on some level.  ~George D. Green

©George D. Green - Bones

Be guided by feelings alone. . . . Before any site and any objects, abandon yourself to your first impression.  If you have really been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.  ~Jean-Baptist-Camille Corot

©Jean-Babtist_Camille Carot - Pâturage dans les marais

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you?  You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water.  Well, I've tried to express just that.  If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest it movement, give a pattern or shape of reality.  I want just the flash of its spirit.  ~Constantin Brancusi

©Constantin Brancusi - The Kiss