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Quotes by Artist
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
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"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."
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"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
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"No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'"
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"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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"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."
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"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."
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"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."
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"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."
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"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
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"Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft."
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"And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
Word,
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"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
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"I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile."
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"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."
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"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
Past,
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"Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw."
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"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
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"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work."
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"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
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"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."
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"People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical."
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"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
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"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
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"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people."
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too."
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"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
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