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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.
Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.
I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.
I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.
I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.
To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.
Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.
Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.
Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.
What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."
Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.
They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.
We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.
January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them.
And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.
It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.