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From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.
What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.
Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.
I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.
Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.
I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...
It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.
The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.
I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
If they're going to get policewomen to jump me... I wish they'd get sexier ones.
This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance.
I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.
My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.