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Quotes by Artist
"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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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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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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"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
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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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"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."
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"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
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"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
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"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."
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"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
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"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
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"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."
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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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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
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"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
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"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis."
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"I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous."
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"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."
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"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."
Art,
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"One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards."
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"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."
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"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
Gold,
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"When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland."
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"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
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"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
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"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
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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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