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How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.
I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.
I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.
I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.
I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.
All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.
We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.
I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
I'm attracted to the things that people throw away - the shadow goods, in Jungian terms.
I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.
Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
Break the mold! Have the biggest vision you can! If you can't dream it, it cannot occur!
I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.
My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.
They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.
My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
The studio keeps notes on the details of editions and production processes and the like.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.