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I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.
When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.
Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.
A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.
Damn it, there are so many idiots whose asses I have to kick! I'll have to start carrying a list just to keep track of 'em all!
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.
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.
I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.
Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.
One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.
Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.
As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.
Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.
I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.
I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.
I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.
Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.