There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
Strive to follow your big dreams. If you fail, cherish the valuable experience gained during the process. There’s always a second time.
I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
