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Quotes by Artist
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
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"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that."
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"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."
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"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."
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"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."
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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
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"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."
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"All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art."
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"To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist."
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"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."
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"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."
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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
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"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
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"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft."
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"I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that."
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"Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off."
Time,
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"If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture."
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"So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic."
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"I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?"
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"Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."
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"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
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"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
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"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."
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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
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