6 Quotes by Richard Artschwager

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.