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Quotes by Artist
"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."
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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness."
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"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"
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"I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances."
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"When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?"
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"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."
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"I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes."
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"Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!"
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"They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world."
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"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
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"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."
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"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,
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"Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything."
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"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"
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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
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"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
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"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."
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"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
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"The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race."
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"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."
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"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again."
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"You begin with the possibilities of the material."
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"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."
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"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."
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"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."
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"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute."
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"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."
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"Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt."
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"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
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