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Quotes by Artist
"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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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
39
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
39
"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."
39
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
39
"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
39
"I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed."
39
"Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly."
38
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
38
"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
38
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
38
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
38
"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal."
38
"Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant."
38
"To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming."
38
"My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life."
38
"The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another."
38
"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."
38
"I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it."
38
"Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities."
38
"It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible."
Work,
38
"I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary."
38
"Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating."
38
"The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting."
Love,
38
"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."
38
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
38
"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face."
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