It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
Ti ameranno molti uomini, figlia mia, ma tutti sbagliati. Perché tu non cerchi l'amore, cerchi stupore, rischi e pazzie. È questo il tuo destino, cara, e guai a te se cerchi di sfuggirlo
..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
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.
Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
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.
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.
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.
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.
