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I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.
As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.
Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
You get an education in school and in college. And then you start to work. and that's when you learn!
There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.
I like to produce work for specific places, and it is difficult to do repeat shows in the same space.
Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.
I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
It would be my intention that everybody should have love, and there are a lot of people in the world.
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.
If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch, Could I join two hearts as well?
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.
What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi." "I'm Goten." "I'm Goku. Hi!" .... "Daddy!
I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
I think sound and vision are all vibratory emanations... it's the way the soul flowers: art and music.
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.
Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.
A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.
Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.
I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.
Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.