Frank Frazetta Quotes & Sayings

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful. — Frank Frazetta

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do. — Frank Frazetta

What I do is create images, period. — Frank Frazetta

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends. — Frank Frazetta

I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it. — Frank Frazetta

Everybody knocks my female figures. They say they're overblown, that women don't look like that. And I agree. certainly all women don't look like my paintings. But you cant deny some women do look like that. I don't want to paint just another woman. A painting, it's something important; you want to look at it, maybe forever. Who wants to look at just an ordinary hero forever? You want the ultimate, you pull out the stops and do everything in extremes. The extreme in beauty, if it fits; the extreme in ugliness if it fits; the extreme in terror if this is what's required. You know, I think this is one reason that so many people enjoy my stuff, because all of these extremes are jammed into it. — Frank Frazetta

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way. — Frank Frazetta