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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.
I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.
If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.
I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.
PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
Is it so good to be sad...? If it is... then I don't care to be good.
Working from live models is too much trouble; it takes too much time.
It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.
Damien Hirst knows how to drive super-fast cars... I love my bicycle.
Ayame: This concludes my wonderful story. Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid!
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.
If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else.
I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.
With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.
As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.
A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.
I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.
The hardest thing about being a manga-ka is that it's a weekly thing.
Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.
Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person's efforts.
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.