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I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.
When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured.
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?
Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.
I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.
Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.
I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.
I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.
If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu
I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.
It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.
People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.