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Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.
Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way. Hatori Sohma: For some reason when you say that it reeks of something illegal.
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.
You gotta wonder about someone who would be dumb enough to fallo a person as crazy as him! wait, I think I just insulted myself - ganju
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.
There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and ingenuity.
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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.
My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.
Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.
Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.
A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.
A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.
Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?
I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.
I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.
Sometimes I'm kind of cranky coming to see something. I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in L.A., saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on.
I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.
My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.