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"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."

"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."

Matthew Barney, American Artist

28

"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."

"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."

Lucian Freud, British Artist

28

"I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond."

"I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond."

Bob Kane, American Artist

28

"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."

"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."

John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist

28

"Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency."

"Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency."

Wayne White, American Artist

Business, Experience, Intelligence, Risk

28

"Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose."

"Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose."

Donald Judd, American Artist

Work, Morality, Want

28

"Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times."

"Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times."

Franz Marc, German Artist

Art, Work, Artists, Defiance

28

"You shouldn't have to justify your work."

"You shouldn't have to justify your work."

Judy Chicago, American Artist

28

"Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike."

"Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike."

Trey Parker, American Artist

Humor, Love, Pretty, Sense

28

"Time abides long enough for those who make use of it."

"Time abides long enough for those who make use of it."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Time, Patience, Opportunity, Life

28

"It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth."

"It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth."

Bob Kane, American Artist

28

"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."

"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Heart, Contrast, Painting

28

"I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered."

"I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered."

Otto Dix, German Artist

Life, Experience, War, Reason

28

"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."

"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."

Tristan Tzara, French Artist

Art, Work, Journalism

28

"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."

"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

Painting, President, Right

28

"My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis."

"My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

Life, Work, History, Neurosis

28

"I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one."

"I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one."

Faith Ringgold, American Artist

28

"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"

"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

28

"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas."

"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

Creativity, Ideas

28

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

Robert Delaunay, French Artist

Art, Light, Painting

28

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch Artist

Faith, Success, Truth, Wisdom

28

"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define."

"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define."

Lee Krasner, American Artist

Work, Consistency

28

"Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it."

"Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it."

Otto Dix, German Artist

Desire, Painting, Reason

28

"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy."

"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy."

Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

28

"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous."

"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous."

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American Artist

Thought, People, Famous, Feeling

28

"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."

"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

People, Flowers, Now, Spring

28

"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Life, Nature, Being, Mind

27

"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."

"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

27

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

Kelly Millar, American Artist

School, Schools

27

"This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer."

"This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer."

John Hench, American Artist

Music, Jazz, Will

27

"Enjoy the day as if it were your last."

"Enjoy the day as if it were your last."

James De La Vega, American Artist

27

"We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more."

"We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more."

John Hench, American Artist

Life, People, Being, Feeling

27

"Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger."

"Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger."

Anders Zorn, Swedish Artist

Family, Mother, Goodbye, Snow

27

"With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication."

"With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication."

Lee Krasner, American Artist

Communication, Light, Quiet, Solitude

27

"If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer."

"If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer."

Peter Max, American Artist

27

"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings."

"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings."

Balthus, French Artist

27

"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation."

"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

Art, Day, Effect

27

"Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols."

"Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols."

John Hench, American Artist

Life, Power, Losing, Now

27

"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."

"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."

Andrew Wyeth, American Artist

27

"Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable."

"Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable."

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

Character, England

27

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny."

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

Enemy, Tyranny, Visions

27

"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."

"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Experience, World

27

"I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side."

"I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side."

Bob Kane, American Artist

27

"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."

"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

History, Time, May, Museums

27

"I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up."

"I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up."

Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

Time, Thought, Writing

27

"I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return."

"I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return."

Isabel Yosito, American Artist

Faith, Heart, Being

27

"Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt."

"Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt."

John Hench, American Artist

People, Intuition, Nothing, Respect

27

"Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water."

"Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water."

John Leech, English Artist

Habit, Excuses, Water

27

"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money."

"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money."

Damien Hirst, British Artist

27

"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."

"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

27

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