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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.
There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.
How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!
I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.
If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.
Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.
Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.
I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.
It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.
I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.
In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who people take interest in.
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.
We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.