We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.
Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
I watch news from the minute I wake up till 11. Then I switch to Charlie Rose. Fox News all the way.
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.
There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
life is limited so people will appreciate it because there’s a limit, we would try our best to live.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.
My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.
I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.
I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!