Maybe I should call Aaya!(Shigure) If you call him...(Yuki) I'll make you eat that phone.(Kyou) -Shigure-san,Yuki-san, Kyou-kun Shoma

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

-He's his rival in love!*inuyasha hits shippo*why'd you do that!? shippo,if you bug inuyasha you'll only feel his fist.-Miroku+shippo

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

I feel as if most people are pretty much the same within a certain class, due to the schools they attend and the way they are raised.

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

I'm a huge fan of process. Even if it's a movie that I don't think is quite as successful, I'm really intrigued by the process of it.

I feel very proud in what we've created in the 'Spiderwick' stories. And, frankly, I am glad we are ending the series on a high-note.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

The women I draw all have the same sort of personality. I can't draw gentle girls; I only know how to draw ones who are strong-willed.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

I've never been a pizza eater. I don't like to hold it and fold it and always burn the roof of my mouth. I hate having greasy fingers.

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

I believe that having something new happen, no matter how small, is what makes for a healthy day, no matter how many days may be left.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

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