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When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.
If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.
When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.
I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.
I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.
Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.
If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.
Did you hear that! Yuki, the heartless Yuki! Heartless Yuki has begged me with tears to let him visit my shop!
I don’t feel that I’m using technology. I don’t feel that I’m wearing technology. I feel that I am technology.
I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.
Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.
When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?
It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.
I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.