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Quotes by Artist
"It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea."
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"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered."
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"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
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"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression."
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"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
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"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."
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"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
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"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."
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"Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life."
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"Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes."
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"Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer."
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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
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"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
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"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."
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"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."
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"And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color."
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"Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist."
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"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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"There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug."
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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials."
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"Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat."
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"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define."
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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
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"Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you."
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"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high."
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