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I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.
If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head
All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.
I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.
I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.
Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.
Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.
What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era.
Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.
Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.
As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him
You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.
To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.
I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.
I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.
Rather than say art is art and life is life, I like to say that they're joined and inextricable.
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.
Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.
I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.
I'm very lucky because my eyes work with almost any hair color. Thanks for the genetics, parents.
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside
Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
There was a time when I was a huge TV addict. I used to race home from school to watch 'Dark Shadows.'