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I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.
You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.
We are women of the world The colors of our souls, rich and beautiful We sing from the same heart, with many voices
I find some comfort in running through the worst-case scenario in my mind and seeing how it's all going to go down.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.
Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.
The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.
I figure if you have one person that loves you, that's enough, growing up. You just need one person in your corner.
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.
As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.
A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.
I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.
I'm going to have sex when it feels right but at the moment ? I just don't feel ready, Justin is very understanding.
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.