I'm a member of the weeper sex.
Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.