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Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980.
Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.
The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.
I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.
Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.
I have no sugar. I don’t eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice.
I want to wait to have sex until I'm married. I do. I want to wait, but it's hard. I just want to live my life.
I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.
'Paper Girls' in 1900 would be really cool. The girls could ride those old bicycles with the giant front wheel!
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It’s ok to cry..!! You can overcome
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.
I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.
Each meal is an opportunity to express yourself to others, sharing a different perspective of your personality.
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.
The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.
I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.
I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.
It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul