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A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.
Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.
Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!
He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!
When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.
I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world
It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.
Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please!
Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.
I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.
I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them.
Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.
Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.
Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.
The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'
The Blood Type Diet has made such a difference - not so much to my shape, but to how I feel and my energy levels.
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour
In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.
I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.