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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.
Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.
You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.
I just feel like when you fall in love you can't help who you fall in love with. You love who you love; it just is what it is.
Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.
My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.
I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to maximise sales.
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.
One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.
Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.
It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming
All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.
Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.
The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.
The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?
The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.