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"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."

"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."

"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"
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"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."

"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."

"Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it."

"The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning."

"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid."

"You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much."

"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."

"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did."
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