A cat only has itself.
I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.
Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees. . . I have wanted to make the camera obsolete. . . because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.