I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!
I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
I get it. I really do. It's got to suck for people to see your sexual orientation instead of seeing you.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
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.
