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.
My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
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.
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.
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.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
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”.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
