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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.
When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.
Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.
One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.
The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.
What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.
I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.