I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.
Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.
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 best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS COMING NEXT OR WHERE IT WILL COME FROM; I ENJOY THE SURPRISE OF IT ALL.
When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.
I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself