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All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.
It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.
I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.
I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.
I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.
Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.
I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.
If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before
The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.
I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.
I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.
When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.
I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.
Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.
I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite
If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.