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The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites.
The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth
Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.
The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.
If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.
Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.
I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!
A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.
They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.