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Quotes by Artist
"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."
43
"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
43
"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
42
"Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical."
42
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
42
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
42
"It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me."
42
"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."
42
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
42
"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."
42
"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."
42
"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."
42
"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."
42
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
42
"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
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"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
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