Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us.
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
