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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
Rem: The way to kill a shinigami is to make them fall in love with a human. Misa: What a wonderful way to kill.
You are just a murdered. (Near) (btw this was an epic win on near's part when light spazzed out and went crazy)
I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.
Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.
Back when I watched 'Future Boy Conan,' I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at all.
The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.
I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself!
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.
I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.
I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
We're part of creating this world in which we live, but we're unaware of how we do that or even that we do that.
I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.
I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.
My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.
I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.
I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.
Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.
If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.
In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.