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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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Paul Cezanne
"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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Vincent Van Gogh
"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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Craig McCracken
"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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"I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them."
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Robert Delaunay
"I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them."
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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
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Andy Goldsworthy
"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
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"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality."
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Paul Cezanne
"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality."
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"Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes."
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Craig McCracken
"Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes."
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"Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny."
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David Hockney
"Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny."
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"But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America."
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Beatrice Wood
"But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America."
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"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
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Vincent Van Gogh
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
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"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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Jerry West
"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."
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Ben Nicholson
"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."
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"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."
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Marc Chagall
"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."
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"I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes."
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Don Bluth
"I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes."
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"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play."
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Bridget Riley
"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play."
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"Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do."
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David Hockney
"Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do."
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"Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat."
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Jack Levine
"Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat."
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"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
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Georg Baselitz
"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
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"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."
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Georgia O'Keeffe
"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."
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"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."
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Joan Miro
"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."
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"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
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Vincent Van Gogh
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
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"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."
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Francis Picabia
"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."
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"Creativity takes courage."
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Henri Matisse
"Creativity takes courage."
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"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
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Camille Pissarro
"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
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"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well."
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David Hockney
"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well."
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"Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways."
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Barbara Kruger
"Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways."
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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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Todd McFarlane
"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it."
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"I still love a lot of the guys who just paint."
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Bill Sienkiewicz
"I still love a lot of the guys who just paint."
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"I'm not too interested in books about India."
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Beatrice Wood
"I'm not too interested in books about India."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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Edward Hopper
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."
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Henri Matisse
"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."
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"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."
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Michelangelo
"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."
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"Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency."
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Rudolf Arnheim
"Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency."
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"The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s."
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Andy Goldsworthy
"The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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Robert Rauschenberg
"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."
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Kevyn Aucoin
"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."
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"You ever try to go a day without judgment?"
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Max Cannon
"You ever try to go a day without judgment?"
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"Work cures everything."
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Henri Matisse
"Work cures everything."
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"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
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Jamie Muir
"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
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"In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question."
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John Dobbin
"In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question."
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"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way."
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David Hockney
"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way."
Age,
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"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
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Gustav Klimt
"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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Michelangelo
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."
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Andy Warhol
"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."
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"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."
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Paul Klee
"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."
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"Jazz is rhythm and meaning."
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Henri Matisse
"Jazz is rhythm and meaning."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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Frida Kahlo
"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."
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Andy Goldsworthy
"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."
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"It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
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Robert Henri
"It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
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"I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum."
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Boyd Rice
"I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum."
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