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Quotes by Artist
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
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"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
Love,
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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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"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.""
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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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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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"Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined."
Work,
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"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
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"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
Past,
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"Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically."
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"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"
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"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."
Time,
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"Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble."
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"Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made."
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"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."
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"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."
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"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained."
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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
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"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."
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"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"You begin with the possibilities of the material."
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"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."
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"The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture."
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"At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London."
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