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Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.
The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.
In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.
When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human".
The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.
My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.
Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.
Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.
I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.
If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki
Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!
When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.
Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.