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My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.
All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.
The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.
Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.
I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.
I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.
What I love about WonderCon is that, while the focus is on the comics, it's also a celebration of games and movies and all the ancillary media.
Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.
I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?
I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.
I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.
One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words!
I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.
'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.
Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.