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So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good Picture Quote #1

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous Picture Quote #1

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I’m not a collector, and I’m not particularly attached to objects Picture Quote #1

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams Picture Quote #1

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money Picture Quote #1

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don’t make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn’t work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising Picture Quote #1

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I’ve been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I’m signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing ‘Beauty and the Beast’ oil paintings. So it’s been an ongoing wonderful job Picture Quote #1

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can’t call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time Picture Quote #1

There’s a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn’t make me well known - they made me notorious Picture Quote #1

I love getting my nails done. My mom’s best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she’d do little paintings on my nails, like flowers Picture Quote #1

I love getting my nails done. My mom’s best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she’d do little paintings on my nails, like flowers. She comes to our house. It’s the best Picture Quote #1

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last 60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings Picture Quote #1

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I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I’ve always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings Picture Quote #1

That’s partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence Picture Quote #1

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, ‘She’s on our side.’ These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn’t have to deal with Picture Quote #1

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they’re all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas Picture Quote #1

Red is one of the strongest colors, it’s blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings Picture Quote #1

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‘Amazing Stories,’ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination Picture Quote #1

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I love meeting people who’ve read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies Picture Quote #1

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution Picture Quote #1

I love CG - it’s a great tool. I just don’t think you should use it to replace reality; you should use it to augment and enhance. Do matte paintings, do composites, do replications, stuff like that, but you’re taking something real and working with that as opposed to trying to fake it from scratch. The human brain can tell the difference Picture Quote #1

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now Picture Quote #1

I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody Picture Quote #1

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don’t think that’s a painter’s business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason Picture Quote #1

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I don’t dare to think my paintings are great. I can’t understand the arrogance of someone saying, ‘I have created a big, important work.’ Picture Quote #1

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt Picture Quote #1

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one’s throat all the sooner Picture Quote #1

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers Picture Quote #1

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it Picture Quote #1

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life Picture Quote #1

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So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. (Paintings Quotes) Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous. (Paintings Quotes) I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I’m not a collector, and I’m not particularly attached to objects. (Paintings Quotes) Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams. (Paintings Quotes) I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money. (Paintings Quotes) I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don’t make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn’t work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising. (Paintings Quotes) I’ve been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I’m signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing ‘Beauty and the Beast’ oil paintings. So it’s been an ongoing wonderful job. (Paintings Quotes) In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can’t call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time. (Paintings Quotes) There’s a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn’t make me well known - they made me notorious. (Paintings Quotes) I love getting my nails done. My mom’s best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she’d do little paintings on my nails, like flowers. (Paintings Quotes) I love getting my nails done. My mom’s best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she’d do little paintings on my nails, like flowers. She comes to our house. It’s the best. (Paintings Quotes) I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last 60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. (Paintings Quotes) I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I’ve always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings. (Paintings Quotes) That’s partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence. (Paintings Quotes) I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, ‘She’s on our side.’ These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn’t have to deal with. (Paintings Quotes) The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they’re all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. (Paintings Quotes) Red is one of the strongest colors, it’s blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. (Paintings Quotes) When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‘Amazing Stories,’ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. (Paintings Quotes) I love meeting people who’ve read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies. (Paintings Quotes) Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. (Paintings Quotes) I love CG - it’s a great tool. I just don’t think you should use it to replace reality; you should use it to augment and enhance. Do matte paintings, do composites, do replications, stuff like that, but you’re taking something real and working with that as opposed to trying to fake it from scratch. The human brain can tell the difference. (Paintings Quotes) I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now. (Paintings Quotes) I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody. (Paintings Quotes) I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don’t think that’s a painter’s business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. (Paintings Quotes) I don’t dare to think my paintings are great. I can’t understand the arrogance of someone saying, ‘I have created a big, important work.’ (Paintings Quotes) I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt. (Paintings Quotes) How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one’s throat all the sooner. (Paintings Quotes) Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. (Paintings Quotes) I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it. (Paintings Quotes) The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life. (Paintings Quotes)

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