Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Andy Warhol
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
I always think I don't do the first one good, so I ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
I don’t think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Willem de Kooning
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
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