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- All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
- Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
- In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I…
- Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and…
- Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they…
- All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to…
- All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
- See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You know, ask yourself…
- Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
- Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the…
- My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray