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There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind
If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.
Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.
In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.
No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.
The Bird of Hermes is my name, Eating my Wings to make me tame.
He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.
I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.
There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.
It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!
Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.
It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.
First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes.
Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.
Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.
The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.
We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.
As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.
I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.
Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.
TV has gotten so boring that the only thing I watch is the news.
I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.
The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.
I always said, you have to have a goal and an objective in life.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.