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Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.
To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
Is it alright to believe in the future where everyone can live in happiness?
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.
If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.
This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.
I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.
Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.
Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.
What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?
Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.
I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.
If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.
I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.
I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.
Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.
Ayame: Hello, Tori-san!! You're not going to believe what Yuki just told me!
That's why I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!
They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain
I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.
Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.
You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable
By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.
As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.
When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.
There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.