Kostabi Mark Quotes & Sayings

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi. — Mark Kostabi

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep. — Robert Bloch

Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant decisions - focused, professional tenacity - day after day of keeping commitments to yourself and to those you make promises to. If you fail, it's all your fault. If you succeed, you deserve all the credit. — Mark Kostabi

Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy. — Mark Kostabi

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. — J. Donald Walters

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres. — Philip Larkin

I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them. — Mark Kostabi

A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym. — Mark Kostabi

Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense ... — Mark Kostabi

Ending lending is beginning winning. — Mark Kostabi

There was a strong sense of being alone, in wintry deadness. Nothing made sense in any direction. — Donna Tartt

I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun ... I continue to be an artist ... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss. — Mark Kostabi

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers. — Mark Kostabi

Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds. — Mark Kostabi

My colors are logically chosen. — Mark Kostabi

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free ... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival. — Mark Kostabi

One secret to my success is that I am faithful to my dreams and don't cheat on my dreams by taking drugs or blaming others when things don't go right. — Mark Kostabi

For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art. — Mark Kostabi

Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace. — Hillary Clinton

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. — Bob Filner

There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment. — Mark Kostabi

I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine ... what they're really doing is barely getting by and helping me sell 1,000 paintings a year effortlessly, because they make my paintings look like such a bargain. Thank you to all the egotistical art students! — Mark Kostabi

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing ... Get press not stress. — Mark Kostabi

Out of routine comes inspiration. — Mark Kostabi

It made her smile a little at how fitting it was to think that an entrance to Hades could be somewhere in the financial district of Manhattan. — David Berger

Sabbath is the practice of letting life rest safely in God's hand.41 — Walter Brueggemann

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself. — Andy Behrman

I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing. — Liev Schreiber

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art. — Mark Kostabi

No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important. — Mark Kostabi

My main goal is to tell a story. — Stephen Sondheim

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. — Mark Kostabi

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history. — Mark Kostabi

I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter ... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside. — Mark Kostabi

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing
everything just right? Taking no chances means
wasting your dreams. — Ellen Hopkins