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Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.
Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.
Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.
Whatever I put on - if I'm feeling trendy or if I'm feeling sexy - my clothes definitely represent who I am at the time.
I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.
I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.
I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.
I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it, just pictures.
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!