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I'm into the food in Vegas. I'm willing to go to nice restaurants for sushi and stuff like that.
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.
I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.
Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.
The lunar cycle within the solar season: that kind of syncopated rhythm is what life relates to.
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
I have to remember that for the most part people will see me for what I do, not what I say I do.
It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer
Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood.
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.
Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu
Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.
It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.
Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.
The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.
Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.
I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.
Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all. ~Shuhei Hisagi
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.