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Quotes by Artist
"Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."
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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
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"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."
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"I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists."
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"Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next."
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"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
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"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything."
Want,
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions."
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"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
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"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."
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"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."
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"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."
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"The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull."
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"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."
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"I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous."
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"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
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"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
Love,
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"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
Gold,
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"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
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