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We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big
Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.
Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.
So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.
we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this.
If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.
If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.
The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.
Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.
It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about.
Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.
It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.
Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.
The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.
I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.