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Quotes by Artist
"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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"Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see."
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"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
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"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible."
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"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
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"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
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"Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline."
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"You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were."
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"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work."
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"I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences."
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"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."
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"How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it."
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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
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"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
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"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life."
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"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't."
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"Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear."
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"Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose."
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"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object."
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"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
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"Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age."
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"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
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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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"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
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"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."
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"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
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