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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.
I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.
Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.
I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.'
My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.
John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.
In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.
It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.'
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.
Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.
My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.
I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.
The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well.
We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.
Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.
I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.