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Quotes by Artist
"The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga."
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
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"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
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"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."
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"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."
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"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."
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"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
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"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
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"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes."
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"I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation."
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"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."
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"Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form."
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"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
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"The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them."
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"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
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"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."
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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."
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"One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer."
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"I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective."
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"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
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"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them."
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"But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes."
Want,
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