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Quotes by Artist
"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
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"The idea is that the object has a language unto itself."
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"I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences."
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"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
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"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."
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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
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"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
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"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."
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"So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration."
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."
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"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
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"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
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"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself."
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"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
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"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
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"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
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"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
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"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."
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"The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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