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The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.
The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.
Who cares if I've had sex? It's nobody's business. Trust me, I'm not going to have a press conference to announce it.
I like to work out. I like a routine. I'm kind of simple. I eat almost the same thing every day. I like Caesar salad.
The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.
I like the type of culture that the Internet allows to happen. And, of course, for some bizarre reason, that is cats!
It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
Don't mind what people say to you, find out what you have in yourself and do your best, that is the only hope in life
Friends are connected by their souls, you can't just rinse something out that has been deeply instilled into your sou
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.
I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.
The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.
You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.
We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives.
No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhelming and fulfilling.
My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.
I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.
I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.