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Quotes by Artist
"There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them."
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"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."
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"It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love."
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"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
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"I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists."
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"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."
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"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
Soul,
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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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"Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted."
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"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."
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"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."
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"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
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"And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting."
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"The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality."
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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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"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."
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"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."
Fire,
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"Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident."
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"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
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"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
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