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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.
If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.
You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.
The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
Those who do not know what love is liken it to beauty. Those who claim to know what love is liken it to ugliness.
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.
Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.
One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.
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.
The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.
The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.
I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.
I'm the type of person that likes to dream big, and I've often found that every great journey begins with a dream.
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.