Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so. . .there wouldn't be any point to be by your side... —kakeru manabe
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.
I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.
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?
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.
I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.
The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.
Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.
I want to fall in love with the internet, but I haven't fallen in love with it yet, because I still have not given love on the internet.
What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.
The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be layered and non-literal.
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.
I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?
A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun and trendy. Clothes should be fun.
When people say I'm powerful, it scares me in a way. If you saw what I see when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't think that either.
What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.
I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream - '" Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!"
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.
You must never forget it if that's an important memory to you. Especially when a person dies, he can only live in the memories of others.
I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.
There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.
In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.
I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.
I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all.
There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.