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In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.
I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
I keep things moving along with a seriously loving, caring, and brilliant man, a fierce group of friends - and really strong coffee.
Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.
Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
So quiet...it's like...all the sounds in the world...have been stopped...only you scent...in the deepest part of my heart...echoing.
Do you remember 'Super Saiyan 3?' I forgot about it, and I thought that was 'Super Saiyan 2,' even though I created those characters.
Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.
Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.
The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
Forget about getting a bank balance and don't be satisfied with things being good enough. Accept only that which is good or the best.
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path.
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.
Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.
The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.
There's not any subject the public doesn't know about me. I don't have secrets, and this is so liberating because this makes me free.
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.