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It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
People's hearts can't be seen by the naked eye. But it doesn't matter, because you are not alone!
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.
My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
I'm pretty normal. Tthe type of day I love is just like everybody else's. I'm like everybody else.
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.
The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.
One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.
It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.