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Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
'LOVE' bit me. It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake. It became too popular; it became too popular.
I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.
I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.
I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.
I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.
If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
If one person dreams alone... It is only a dream. When many people dream together... It is the beginning of a new reality.
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!
I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.
I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.
I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.
A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.
My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
I find Instagram interesting to the extent that new royal families are born and die there, such as The Kardashians of L.A.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.