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I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.
Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that.
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.
I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.
I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.
I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.
I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.
I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.
I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.
Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia
What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that.
As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
Lady Gaga will dominate the charts next year. She let me listen to a couple of new songs, she is a legend.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.
My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
But remember, when it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!
It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.