When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

The UK crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Roy: "Looks like it's starting to rain" Riza: "But..It's not raining..." Roy: "Yes it is. This is the rain.

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.

One of DC's strengths is our archive of storylines ranging from 'Watchmen' to 'Arkham Asylum' to 'Sandman.'

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

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