My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
You basically only discover a new thing once.
I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
Maybe an artist's position in society is different today because it's more individualistic. You're not a direct servant anymore to the patron-you're an indirect servant, or a servant with a choice, or maybe you could not even serve. It's the way you make something. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. . . artwork is brutal for so many people. . . I like the idea of an artist as sombody who works.
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.
I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.
Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.
Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts ? it is our real strength.