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I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.
I really enjoy the aesthetic of building my fashion sense. I enjoy the process of going through fashion phases.
Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.
Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.
I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.
There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.
I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.
Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.
For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.
I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.
'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.
People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.
While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.
I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.
I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.
It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.
Once I made the decision to make art despite the obstacles and to make this my priority, things just opened up for me.
It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.
If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what.
I want to be able to live in a way that isn't too hectic. Calm. And I want those around me to be sublimely happy as well.
I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.
As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.
Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.
I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
I'm really interested in women, particularly the kind of black woman who has overcome obstacles in her life and transformed.
I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.
I don't model unless I think the project is cool, and I don't put my name behind something that I don't genuinely believe in.