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Quotes by Artist
"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."
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"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
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"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
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"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."
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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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"It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me."
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"It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team."
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"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."
Fact,
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"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
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"I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it."
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"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."
Love,
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"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."
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"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
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"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."
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"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."
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"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."
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"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
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"I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity."
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"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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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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"Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others."
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"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
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"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."
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"The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting."
Love,
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