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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.

Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen?

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.

Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

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