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Quotes by Artist
"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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"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
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"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."
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"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer."
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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
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"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."
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"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed."
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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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"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
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"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
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"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."
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"Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something."
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"I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene."
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"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
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"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."
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"Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons."
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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
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"For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information."
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"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't."
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"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that."
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