Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.
Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.
If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you! Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.
I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.
Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.
So you're not a prince. She's pretty astute,don't you think? Owww! I'm sorry-- I'll shut up now, Princess!
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.
I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.
No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.
I sensed only an instant of apprehension. She never raised an eyebrow at the question.. Such a brave girl.
I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.
The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog.
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.
The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.