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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.
My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.
I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.
I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.
My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.
Part of the value of TASK is not to invest into anything permanent; to really celebrate the moment-the fluidity of creative action.
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.
I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.
What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.
I use Pilot's document ink, but their drawing ink is OK, too. It's just that I don't like the impression that clings to the pen tip.
Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.
I have "come back" [to music scene] so many times, people are just like, Is this another one?... It's kind of like a joke to me now.
I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.
I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.
You have here In New York one of the greatest and most picturesque and artistic structures in the world. I mean the Brooklyn Bridge.
If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.
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 fulfills me.
I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there.
I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.
Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.
I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.
I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).
Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.
I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'