Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
The human body is the best work of art.
I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
Take your broken heart, make it into art.
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.