Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
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.
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.
I consider myself the queen of pugs of New York City. I'm really into my dogs. Massive pugs, massive needlepoint, massive color!
Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.
Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.
What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.
Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.
Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.
I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
It's not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It's just that I'm basically not that comfortable doing them.
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.
I certainly wouldn't buy a DVD series of a hit show and start at Season 7. I would want to go back and start from the beginning.
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.
I aim to remind the warrior within us all to navigate through the unknown that we may meet the morning, improved and unenslaved.
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.
If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.
One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.
we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.
All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.
I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.
I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.