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"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."
"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."
"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."
"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."
"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work."
"I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen."
"People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret."
"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them."
"Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something."
"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."
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