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I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.
The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.
It's more about capturing an idea than about capturing a moment.
[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.
There isn’t anything I have to be afraid of, love is the answer.
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.
Al: So what's your strategy? Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.
You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.
One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.
Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.
Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.
All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.
Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.
Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all...and pile on the years.
Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is.
One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.
ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light
The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon.
In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.
The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.