Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do. . . you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.
I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.