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I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.
I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.
For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.
I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.
Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.
I have my relationship with God and myself, and that's what matters to me. I really don't care what most people think.
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.
One of the funny things about Wonder Woman is that everybody does love her. She does win everybody over at some point.
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.
I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.
Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.
I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.
Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.
I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next.
I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.
If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.
If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.
The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.
I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.