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The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.
Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.
I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.
If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.
I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.
Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.
The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.
All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.
Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
I'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl
Oh, I've wept. Yeah, I've definitely wept just with the world, you know, how judgmental they are. You know what, I know I'm a good mom.
It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.
Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.
My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it.
I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.
Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.
Everybody 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.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.