Zitat des Tages über Michelangelo:
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Everything starts from a dot.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
I approach beauty the same way I approach clothing - I think people should do whatever to themselves to make them feel more comfortable in their skin.
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
Life well spent is long.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
I'm not a religious person at all.
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
Everything I do is the environment.
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.
And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
