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Quotes by Artist
"So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic."
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"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."
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"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
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"The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas."
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"But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression."
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"I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes."
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"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."
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"But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way."
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"I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York."
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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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"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work."
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"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
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"I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move."
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"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
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"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."
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"At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did."
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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
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"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
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"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
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"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
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"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"
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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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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
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"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
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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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"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."
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