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Quotes by Artist
"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done."
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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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"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway."
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"So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe."
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"Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing."
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
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"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."
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"Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something."
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"My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life."
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"But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else."
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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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"When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland."
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"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
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"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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"Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face."
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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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"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."
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"Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life."
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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
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"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work."
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"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
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"Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons."
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"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
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"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."
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"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
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"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
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