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Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.
I want it to be 70 per cent beautiful, 15 per cent surrealistically beautiful, and the rest so beautiful that nobody can bear it.
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.
I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.
That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
Whereas before I was a young, blonde girl who would do what she was told. I know who I am as a person and I'm getting damn strong.
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
There's always someone who cares. Someone whose life would simply stop. You just don't know it yet, or you haven't found them yet.
If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.
Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.
I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!
I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples.
There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.
I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.