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Quotes by Artist
"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
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"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."
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"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
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"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
Act,
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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
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"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness."
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"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
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"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
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"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."
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"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
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"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
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"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."
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"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment."
Want,
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"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from."
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"It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own."
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"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."
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"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."
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"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
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"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
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"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."
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"Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted."
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"Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important."
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