Commercial Art Quotes - Page 2

• It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Would Be, Liz

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• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Looks, Want

  Quoted in Free Press (Los Angeles), 17 Mar. 1967

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• I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, War, Mean

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• Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, America, Way

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2015). “POPism: The Warhol Sixties”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

  Chip Kidd

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

  Erwin Panofsky

  Art, Maids, Danger

  Erwin Panofsky, William S. Heckscher (1997). “Three Essays on Style”, p.120, MIT Press

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• Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back then, it was really esoteric, you had to quantify it as being 'like commercial art', as one still does in certain circles. It was a strange thing to want to do for a living.

  Michael Bierut

  Art, Circles, Design

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, School, Advantage

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.

  R. O. Blechman

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Age, Landscape

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• Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

  William Webb

  Tattoo, Art, Illustration

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• My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Mistake, Character

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• People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Art, Attitude, Thinking

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• Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Design, Would Be

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• I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

  Joe Wright

  Art, Division, Film

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• We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We're using those things – but we're not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

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• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Thinking, Honest

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• I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Girl, Art, Men

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Way

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• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, College, Years

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