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I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.
If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
I don't want...to run away by myself... because no matter what...I'd rather be together with everyone.
Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.
I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
Beautiful night, isn't it, Police Girl? It's especially beautiful, of course, if you're a bloodsucker.
I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.
I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.
I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it.
But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.
Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.