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The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.
That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.
I use quite a bit in my kitchen, but the one thing that's an absolute must would have to be my high-speed blender.
The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.
Saying she doesn't mind being alone...that she's alright... There isn't a person alive who'd really feel that way!
Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.
Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.
The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.
To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.
There are only two people in 'Eat' - myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki - and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom.
If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is Like a blade.
I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.
To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.
Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.
Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.
I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.
If you're doing gags, I think it's important to have characters who are as strong-willed and impactful as possible.
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.
What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.
I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.