Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.
Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.
The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.
The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults
Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.
I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up
I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.
Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.
When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.
There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.
Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.
And now, I'm thinking again, isn't there something we can do about something we can't do anything about?
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?
I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.