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Quotes by Artist
"But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years."
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"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."
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"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
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"It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team."
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
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"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."
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"Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw."
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"One thing that success has taught me is censorship."
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"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
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"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
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"I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives."
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"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting."
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"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."
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"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
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"With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end."
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"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
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"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."
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"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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