I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference.
Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes. . . Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.
Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.
Oh, my god!” I said to Reyes, my eyes radiating accusations at him. “She took your picture? Just what kind of game are you playing? You’re under arrest, mister. ” His mouth tilted and a dimple emerged on one cheek as I took his wrist and threw him against a wall. Or, well, urged him toward it. I held him against the cool wood with one hand and frisked him with the other.
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
I only write about what I do, what happens to me.