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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Ideally you want to be a couple of months ahead on a project. But I rarely am.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.
But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.
The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.
When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.
Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.
Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.
The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!
Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.
Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.