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They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
I travel so much that when I'm not traveling, I'm just kind of curled up in a ball here, not wanting to leave or see anyone.
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal
I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.
Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space...We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.
Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that.
It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.
There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
We're at that kind of moment where we really have to understand that everyone is totally connected and everyone is important.
I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.
People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.
Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from.
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.
I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.
Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.
Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.
If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.
It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.
It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.