Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality. . . true art lies in a reality that is felt.
True art lies in a reality that is felt.
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.
In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius.
Every day we put another 110 million tons of global warming pollution into the sky as if it's an open sewer, and it's still building up. And the scientists tell us it's a race against time. We've stabilized emissions globally now for the last three years, but they need to start coming down quickly. We've got the momentum, we've got the wind in our sails, we're gonna win this.