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I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.
The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.
The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.
Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.
Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.
Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.
As cheesy and cornball as it sounds, life does get better - if you want it to.
I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible
What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.
People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.
The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.
I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.
I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'
Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful
Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.
Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.'
I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.
When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.
It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.
I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial.
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.
If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.
In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.
The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.