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Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.
Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?
I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
I feel comfortable in my skin. ... I used to run around my house naked when I was 13.
I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.
Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
I'm really very visually attracted to Wonder Woman. She just looks great on the page.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.
I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.
The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.
The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.
I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.
I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.
I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.
My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.
Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.
One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.