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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.
I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
I am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art.
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
I would never make fun of anyone who is obviously disabled who cannot defend himself, like Donald Trump.
When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.
Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.
Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom!
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.
Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.
Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.
I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.
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.
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.
Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.
I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!
Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.
It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.
Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.
The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.
What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.