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Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.
To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are but lower than the angels.
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.
Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.
While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.
I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge.
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.
I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.
I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.
I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.
I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.
Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.
I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian dad wore Uniqlo. I wore Uniqlo, of course.
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.
My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.
Helloooo? I just made some changes in my life, and if I don't get back to you as soon as possible, then guess what? You were one of those changes.
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.
Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.
I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.