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The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?
How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.
If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.
I'm a very hands-on person; I don't just want to give my name to something and not be a big part of it.
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.
In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.
I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.
I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
I mean, I have worked out. I've always worked out a little, you know, when I felt it was, like... time.
I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.
Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.
Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.
I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.