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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo
As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.
If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.'
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!
Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
I guess you could blame it on being raised by comics and television, but I've always loved robots in any shape or size.
We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.
The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.
If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.
People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.
I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.
Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.
There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
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.
Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.
I just follow the things I'm interested in. That's always guided me. If I'm interested in something, that's where I go.
Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.
Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.
I would describe myself as a tallish, shy, middle-aged man who equally loves his work and his freedom. And a good liar!
I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.
I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.