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Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.
Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.
It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.
People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.
Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.
I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'
Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.
I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.
I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.
I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death.
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.
I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.
I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.
If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.
There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record.
I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.