I used to date a girl from Buffalo. Why can't I meet a girl with normal parents?
The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.
I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.
In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.
The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
Fear only has as much power as we give it space.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.