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I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.
I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist
I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.
When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.
It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.
Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.
Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.
I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
I don't like music that much... I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. I've liked those since way back when.
Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!
The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.
I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters.
The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.
I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'