The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early.
It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.
Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.
An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.
Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.
A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.
Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.
. . . what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.
It's easy to have a relationship and show each other only the beautiful shiny things. Sharing good parts about you is elementary, so finding a partner in life can't be only about showcasing these agreeable characteristics, but also the less impressive ones. In a strange way, true intimacy lies in that dark side-in making peace with the fact that it lives inside you somewhere-so that you can share it with the person and they can be there to help you overcome it.
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.