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The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.
Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work.
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.
I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.
That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.
Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'
Things like Ferguson and Eric Garner show us there's an unequal distribution of forward momentum in America.
There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.
I would have loved to paint Eartha Kitt, but she's no longer here. I'm so glad I had the chance to meet her.
You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.
As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.
The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
How we treat our bodies directly correlates to how we treat our souls. It's all interconnected. It has to be.
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.
I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.
I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.