The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
“The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.”
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The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
“The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.”
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“The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.”
“I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.”
“I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.”
“For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.”
“Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.”
“We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.”
“It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.”
“I think we will have terrorism in the United States as it has been in the Middle East and in Europe.”
“Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and a notorious human rights abuser, exploited President Biden's weaknesses in order to endanger America's interests throughout the Middle East.”
“Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.”
“I love the East Village.”
“I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.”