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As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.
I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.
I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the most part.
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.
Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.
I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.
My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.
Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.
I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it.
I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
It is my wish to leave a message to the whole world from the universe, a message of love and peace to the people of the world.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.
The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.
Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.