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I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.
The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler.
A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution.
I loathe having to go out and get dressed up. I'd much rather stay home and watch CNN.
I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!
There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.
[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.
The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
Knowing what to take out and what to leave in is what separates the men from the boys.
Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.
If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.
All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.
Democracy has betrayed the race, because education has not served man as was expected.
There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves.
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.
I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
[Superman and Lois are] kindred spirits, and they always choose to do the right thing.
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.
To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.
Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?
The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.