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Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.
One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.
Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV.
Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.
I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.
The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.
I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.
I'm not one of those people who holds a grudge about anything.
The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.
As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.
It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.
Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.
I have labored to make the record of the great men of my time.
Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.
I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.
My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.
I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
I can't see anybody wanting to go to 'Tank Girl: The Musical!'
I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.
I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.
You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.
People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?
Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.
Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.
Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.