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I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
I met Carl Sagan quite a few times - a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good friend, too.
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.
While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.
Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something, it’s being happy with who you are.
I think when you experience things in your life, dealing with good and bad things, you just become stronger in so many ways.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.
Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.
You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.
One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
Don't forget to smile in any situation. As long as you are alive, there will be better things later, and there will be many.
I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.
The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
If you're having fun, if you're working with people you love working with, then the results are always going to be exciting.
Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.
Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club
Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.