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We are informed about the gallery space but never involved with it as being an extension of the artist's studio – a haven that purifies emotions through the evocation of fear, stimulation of thought and interaction. (Faisal Abu'Allah)
I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my music while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the "everyday" continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it. (Keren Ann)
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. (Richard Avedon)
Cars are useful mobile studios... if you can get near your location, the boot will provide invaluable space for everything you require. Generally it will afford your materials a lot more protection from the elements... (Mary Batchelor)
-on Pablo Picasso...
The whole studio seemed to be bristling with Picassos. All the bits of wood and frames had become like his pictures... (Vanessa Bell)
People who aren't artists seem to not understand exactly what a studio is. It's not a store. It's not a factory. It's not a theme park. It's my personal space and their company is not so invasive. (Eleanor Blair)
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. (Van Wyck Brooks)
My studio has a personality of its own. It can be a monstrous clutter from one end to the other or, at times, the very model of simplicity. (Harley Brown)
Too many artists get seduced by sunlight and have to continually adjust for light variations. The lighting conditions in here [my studio] are perfect. It never changes from day to night. I always know the color on the canvas is what I want it to be. (Jack Cassinetto)
... a beautiful new studio, with everything possible an artist needs... is intimidating. I'm used to cramped spaces, like cars and kitchens... just looking at the new studio easel makes me want to paint – and run away. (Jane Champagne)
A room without books is like a body without a soul. (G. K. Chesterton)
But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament. (Christopher Pearse Cranch)
In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare. (Cindy Crawford)
Give your studio a high ceiling. Otherwise it will be difficult to light. Either that or don't do dark paintings... It's a problem of reflection. (Warren Criswell)
The studio is less important than other things, like the burning desire to paint. If you don't have this disease, you can't catch it from a nice studio. (Warren Criswell)
Locations are all tough, all miserable. (Bette Davis)
My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work. (Doug Dawson)
My figurative work is about movement, dynamism and expression... As a result, I make quite a mess... which is why I have a rented space in a nearby mill. (Mark Demsteader)
You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark. (Annie Dillard)
We allow no geniuses around our Studio. (Walt Disney)
Once in a while / I don't know why / the 'ease' in easel / seems a lie. / For there are times / when I find more ease / holding the canvas / on my knees. (John Engle)
Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio. (Nita Engle)
Every time you go into the studio it's like 'chasing a greased pig.' (John Erickson)
I have done some really good work under the worst circumstances and some pretty awful stuff in a well organized, pristine studio. (Shirley Erskine)
The only thing I know is that if I get to my studio, that means I'm alive today. (Robert Farber)
My studio begins at the art supply store. I imagine all the paintings trapped inside those tubes of paint. (John Ferrie)
Keep your shop and your shop will keep you. (Benjamin Franklin)
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio. (Robert Genn)
-on the home of Dylan Thomas...
As I looked at this modest building... I could see, just as freedom is most on the mind of those confined to dungeons, imagination can fly from humble, quiet, unstimulating places. (Robert Genn)
The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other – makes art always available. (Sara Genn)
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product. (Grace Glueck)
My main studio is the kitchen table. I lay the canvas flat and stand over it... It limits the size of canvas to the size of table and arm's length – you can rotate the work and come in from all directions. (Brad Greek)
My studio is a 15x15-foot space on the aft-deck. An easel, taboret, and adjustable sunshades make it feel like my home studio, but with better natural lighting and a more fabulous view... (Karen Hewitt Hagan)
Without the studio, however humble, the room where the imagination can enter cannot exist. (Anna Hansen)
Tom did not want a studio in the Building. It was altogether too pretentious for him... There was a dilapidated old shack on the back of the property... We fixed it up...and he [Tom] lived in that place as he would a cabin in the north. (Lawren Harris)
-description of the boxcar hauled up the line by freight train to chosen destinations for Group of Seven artists...
...a few windows, four bunks, a stove, water tank, sink, cupboard, two benches and a table. (Lawren Harris)
-to Max Stern...
At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years. (E. J. Hughes)
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors! (Elizabeth Janeway)
I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to. (Anish Kapoor)
Adopt the habit of never leaving your studio dark... when you enter the space you'll find "it" awake and waiting for your presence. (James Kay)
The sign on my studio door warns, "Beware of Flying Brushes." (Earl Grenville Killeen)
All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either... (Paul Klee)
All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area. (Alexander Liberman)
Room service? Send up a larger room. (Groucho Marx)
You can't come into my studio. It is a very intimate thing... the work will speak for itself. (Pamela Masik)
-lived: 1875-1965...
As I was sitting in my chair, / I knew the bottom wasn't there, / Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, / Ignoring little things like that. (Hughes Mearns)
I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. (Joan Miro)
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home. (Claude Monet)
-in the floating studio...
Today I drifted with Camille on the Seine at Argenteuil. The views materialized and dissolved and I was as contented as a cow in her stall. (Claude Monet)
Emily Carr had a very small studio space, so she kept her chairs hoisted up to the ceiling. Only when she really wanted a visitor to stay, did she lower a chair to the floor. (Catherine Jo Morgan)
The first time bears invaded my studio I knew I was in for a challenge. (Charles Muench)
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash)
I looked at my studio as a painting. Now whenever I need a break, I paint this area where I just love to be. (Richard Pionk)
My painting does not come from the easel... On the floor I am more at ease. (Jackson Pollock)
I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them. (Paula Rego)
A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work. (Albert Pinkham Ryder)
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)
My studio would not have the same allure without the musical counterpart. (Elfrida Schragen)
A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe. (Joaquin Sorolla)
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, / And the planets come to me. (Arthur Symons)
The airless studios grow stifling. Kick the door open – the hum of life turns into a roar. (Feliks Topolski)
I'm downsizing my studio and outsourcing my painting. (unknown)
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Do you spend a couple of hours every day in your studio? (Kay WalkingStick)
Armed with an easel, stool, some half-inch ply for drawing boards, some sketchpads, a bottle of Indian ink and pencils, and I have a studio! (Peter Wood)
The room within is the great fact about the building. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. (Steven Wright)
Take 'empowerment' to your studio. (Lillian Wu)
I don't really have studios. I wander around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. (Andrew Wyeth)
Higher ceilings prime the feeling of freedom that in turn facilitates the relational processing of multiple data. (Rui Zhu)
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