I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.
The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?
An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.
My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.
It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.
When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.
An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p. m. , and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.
Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
I think you have you to give people the facts [about global warming], and then you have to tell them, this is not like drinking Castor Oil. There is a, an economically exciting way for us to create a whole new generation of American jobs without costing them an enormous amount of money or forcing them to change their lifestyle.