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I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad. Lisa Hanawalt
Bad Lazy Artist
A hot dog cut up with ketchup is, like, lunch for me, so I just think it's funny to Instagram it. I just don't want to put that much effort into cooking. Lisa Hanawalt
Funny Me Cooking Dog Lunch Think Instagram Put Hot Hot Dog Like Up Effort Just Want Cut Much Ketchup
I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters. Lisa Hanawalt
People Dark Dark Side Side Drawn Characters Feel Towards Same Pathos Fictional Little Who
It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying. Lisa Hanawalt
Before Drawn Find Said Been Trying Hard Things
I haven't thought too much about the word 'foodie,' but I definitely lie closer to the 'I just need to eat a thing to fuel myself' end of the spectrum. It's not quite a hobby. I don't feel a need to try all the newest restaurants. Lisa Hanawalt
Myself Lie Try Word Too Much Thought Too Definitely Restaurants Eat About Feel End Closer Quite Just Hobby Newest Fuel Much Thing Spectrum Need
I never thought, 'I'm going to learn how to be funny now!,' and I'm still surprised when other people think I'm funny. I just learned to make jokes as a way of moving through the world. It helps me deal with all sorts of discomfort and boredom. Lisa Hanawalt
Funny Me Jokes People World Thought Think Other Way Boredom Through Never Make Learn Learned Sort Deal Discomfort How Still Surprised Going Just Moving Helps Now
I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual. Liu Bolin
Property People Will Pay Way Background More Individual Disappeared Environment Attention Because Camouflage Social Meaning Meaning Of Body Chose
When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public. Liu Bolin
Me Relationship Fool Those Slogans About Individual Disappears Between Covered Wall Which Public Body Used
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others. Louise Bourgeois
Art Myself Feelings Others Restoration Terms Form
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone. Louise Bourgeois
TV Fax Computer Use Watch
I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious. Louise Bourgeois
Anxiety Feeling Realistic Down Way Drawing Slip Drawings Finish Unconscious Abstract Idea Know Loose Want Level
Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression. Louise Bourgeois
Work Me Market Though Enter About Qualities Concerned Self-Expression Does Am Formal Interest Even Right Need
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood. Louise Bourgeois
Work Religious Catholic Am Real Blood Interested Flesh Raised
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. Louise Bourgeois
Remember Long Drawings Kind Another Diary Really Kept
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. Louise Bourgeois
Me Mother Father Control Ran Fell America Died Wanted Apart Away Consequence
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. Lucian Freud
Own Think Everything Pleasure Must Entirely Sees He His Being Use Being There Painter
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. Lucian Freud
Picture Own Hung No Interest He Since Faithfully Up Model Accurate Going Whether Interest Next Copies Copy
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. Lucian Freud
Work Myself Purely About Surroundings Autobiographical
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. Lucian Freud
People Exactly Spite Like Because How Happen Paint
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. Lucian Freud
Only Point Excitement Private His Providing Very Model Should Painter Function Serve Starting Starting Point
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Lucian Freud
Worth Picture Preserving Took About Could He Taken Feels Qualities Were His Model Person Which Really Painted Painter Twice Thinks
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. Lucian Freud
Truth Strike Distinction About Something More Fact True Merely Between Does Revelation Than Being Element
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. Lucian Freud
Will Seen Entirely Itself Depends Whether Convince
I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible. Lucien Smith
Money Possible Attention Come Grab Wanted Much Much Attention Really Show Thesis
I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last. Lucien Smith
Me Long State Definitely Concerned How Am Oil Interesting Paintings Last Preservation
I was born in L.A., but raised in New York. Lucien Smith
Born New York New York Raised
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