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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Team spirit spurs me on. I've always found it easier to be strong for other people than for myself.
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.
Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to
Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.
Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.
My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.
Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.
I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.
Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.
What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people.
Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.
Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.
I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.
You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.
No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.
Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.