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Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... " - Shigure Sohma
I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.
All you have to do is put on the Bettie Bangs and everybody automatically knows what it means.
If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.
Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes.
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.
I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.
If I become the most popular author in jump, please give me the right to end one manga I hate.
You're just a crazy murderer who's confused himself with a god.... nothing more, nothing less.
I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.
Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.
The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
A teleporter would be nice. There are lots of places I want to go, but getting there is a pain.
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.
You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.
I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.
Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.
Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?
I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.
Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.