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I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing... like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.
My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up! I'm still alive! So treat me like it! Look at me!
I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist.
Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.
For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.
Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.
I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end... without Rangiku having to cry.
My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.
Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.
People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.
You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!
As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.
I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.
Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.
I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.
One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.