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There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.
However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.
The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.
I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.
Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.
I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.
In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.
my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.
Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.
I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.
Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.
Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.
Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.
Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".
I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.
It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.
In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.
Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.