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Quotes by Artist
"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."
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"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
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"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings."
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"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."
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"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."
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"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
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"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
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"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."
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"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
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"I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window."
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"You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper."
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"Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction."
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"That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues."
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"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels."
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"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue."
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"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."
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"The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business."
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"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."
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"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past."
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"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality."
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"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can."
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"My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know."
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"Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends."
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"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
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