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Quotes by Artist
"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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"I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated."
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"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."
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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
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"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."
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"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
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"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
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"Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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"The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie."
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"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
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"Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal."
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"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."
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"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
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"The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met."
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"I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances."
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"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."
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"When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough."
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"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"
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"You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people."
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"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
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"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."
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"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."
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"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
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"Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
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"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."
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"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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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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