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Quotes by Artist
"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes."
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"But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great."
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"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
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"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
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"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."
Time,
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"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
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"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
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"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement."
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"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."
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"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
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"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
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"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."
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"The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess."
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"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists."
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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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"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."
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"And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting."
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"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
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"Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident."
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"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
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"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."
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"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
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"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself."
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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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"Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more."
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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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"He turns not back who is bound to a star."
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"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
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"Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt."
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