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Quotes by Artist
"Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like."
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"Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility."
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"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
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"History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information."
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"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world."
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"The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds."
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"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean."
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable."
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"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."
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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
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"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."
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"I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities."
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"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."
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"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."
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"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."
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"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that."
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"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
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"It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible."
Work,
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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
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"My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar."
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"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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"Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises."
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"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."
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"In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself."
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"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."
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"I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist."
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"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."
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"But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were."
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"It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
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