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Quotes by Artist
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
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"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."
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"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."
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"I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees."
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"That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story."
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"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
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"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."
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"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
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"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"
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"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it."
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"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing."
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"I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed."
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"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal."
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"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching."
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"So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe."
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
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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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"To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction."
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"The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another."
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"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
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