In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea
Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.
I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land. Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.
I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.
