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Quotes by Artist
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
Art,
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"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
40
"My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar."
40
"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that."
40
"We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from."
40
"I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed."
40
"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible."
40
"We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves."
40
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
40
"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
40
"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."
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"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."
40
"Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power."
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"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."
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"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."
40
"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."
40
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
Soul,
40
"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
40
"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."
Fire,
40
"Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important."
40
"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
40
"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."
40
"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything."
Want,
40
"The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex."
40
"In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true."
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