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The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.
I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.
See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.
The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.
No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!
I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
Father: Why did you not become mine God!? God: Because you did not believe in me.
Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.
I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!
I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him.
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath.
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.
Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.
I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.
Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.