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"I've always been a fine artist."
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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."
"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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"My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way."
"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty."
"When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people."
"It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it."
"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
"Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice."
"I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate."
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