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I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.
Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.
I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.
We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.
The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it.
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.
To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.
The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.
I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.
I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.