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Quotes by Artist
"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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"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
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"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."
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"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
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"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
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"My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate."
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"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"
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"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
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"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
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"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."
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"At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you."
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"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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"Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical."
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"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
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"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."
Art,
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"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
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"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying."
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"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
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"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
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"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."
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"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."
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