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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Diego Rivera

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

Eva Braun

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

Ellsworth Kelly

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

Ellsworth Kelly

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

Ellsworth Kelly

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

Ellsworth Kelly

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Ellsworth Kelly

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

Ellsworth Kelly

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

Barbara Kruger

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Barbara Kruger

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Barry McGee

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Ben Nicholson

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Ben Nicholson

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

Ben Nicholson

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

Bob Ross

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Bridget Riley

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Ben Shahn