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Quotes by Artist
"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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"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."
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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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"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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"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."
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"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare."
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"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
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"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns."
Talk,
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"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."
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"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
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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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"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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"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
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"Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder."
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"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
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"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels."
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"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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"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."
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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."
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"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."
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"The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them."
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