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Pause before you get home and prepare your heart. A peaceful heart leads to a peaceful atmosphere.
With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate.
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.
Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet
My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.
I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.
To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun!
I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.
Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?
If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.
I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.
I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.
I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.
In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.
I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.
If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up.
You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.
If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.
Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.
I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.
How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?
What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.