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I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.
I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that.
All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
We're not on a journey to a goal, the goal is with us changing with us.
I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.
I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.
Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.
I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.
Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.