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Quotes by Artist
"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."
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"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."
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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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"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube."
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"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
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"I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window."
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"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."
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"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
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"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."
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"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
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"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
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"I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later."
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"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
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"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller."
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"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait."
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"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."
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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
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"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
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"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't."
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