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Quotes by Artist
"Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant."
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"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
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"I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist."
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"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin."
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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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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
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"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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"I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to."
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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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"All artists are now free to express their own personality."
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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
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"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."
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"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."
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"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."
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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
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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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"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
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