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Art Quotes
"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness."
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"To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
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"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from."
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"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."
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"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
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"Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again."
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"Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character."
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"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
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"As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start."
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"One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table."
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"Fucking is an art. The mere fact of introducing the cock in the cunt and moving it in and out until the ejaculation of spunk is not art. True, it is fucking, but the difference between that way of doing it and the way it should be done, is like the difference between a child's first drawing and a picture by the world's greatest painter."
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"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality."
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"What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?"
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"Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it."
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"Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
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"Metal rusts, music lasts forever."
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