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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.
I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.
I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You become a better human being.
If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.
I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.
You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.
'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.
I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let's face it. And any little bit - you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it.
If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up... yours and mine.
I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.
My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.
I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.
While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.
If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.
A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
I think I'm still clean living. That's - I mean I don't go home and have orgies or anything like that. I'm still the same person I've always been.
Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.