I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.
I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.
I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.
I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.
I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.
I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.
I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
