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As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.
As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.
The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.
Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.
When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.
Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.
I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.
Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.
One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.
So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated.
I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.
Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.
When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.
I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.
When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.
All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
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.
I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.
The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.
The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.
I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.
It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.
You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.