“I always have stress”
-TM-
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
-SD-
“I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.”
-WdK-
“Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.”
-YK-
“If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.”
-JL-
“I start a picture and I finish it.”
-JMB-
“I live in the shadow... I like shadow, that’s why I became a black and white photographer.”
-HS-
“Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whoever you want.”
-FK-
“Art is necessary for the human mind. Art is about our dreams, fears, and imagination. Art is about everything outside of the system. It is a death sentence for art when it is within the system.”
-AW-
"A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been."
-CC-
“As a visual artist and as a human; I am concerned with evolution. A place of equal negotiations. We are all aware of inequalities. Many want to do something about it. A few don’t. We protest, we march, we knock on doors for change.
My personal mission is to bring imagery to art which has not been understood or embraced by American culture.”
-ME-
"Negativity is the enemy of creativity."
-DL-
“My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.”
-GO-
“We know that everything we do is alive. They have a life, they are real. They live in this place. Everything we paint, we know they can talk, they can walk, they have a name, they are real people. They are alive.”
-OSGEMEOS-
“We know that everything we do is alive. They have a life, they are real. They live in this place. Everything we paint, we know they can talk, they can walk, they have a name, they are real people. They are alive.”
-OSGEMEOS-
"You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love."
-LB-
“Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.”
-JB-
"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
-Christo-
"I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete."
-CO-
“You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.”
-RC-
“To me, pictures are like blintzes – ya gotta get ‘em while they’re hot.”
-AF-
“A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.”
-MR-
“We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.”
-FB-
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
-HST-
"Dogs and angels are not very far apart."
-CB-
"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."
-CB-
"There is loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of a clock’s hand."
-CB-
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
-JMB-
“The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.”
-SL-