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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.
I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.
I'm home! Yuki-Kun, Tohru-Kun, I'm home! Oh, and let's not forget Stupid-clumsy-Kyo-Kun-who-lost-yet-another-fight!" -Shigure
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.
I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.
If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.
Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.
When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
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 the paintings'.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
I always call my cousin because we're so close. We're almost like sisters, and we're also close because our mom's are sisters.
I'm so blessed with my Baby. [...] I just want the most normal life possible for him. [...] I will manage. I will create that.
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.
Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.
The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now