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Quotes by Artist
"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
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"The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that."
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"We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from."
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible."
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"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
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"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
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"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."
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"You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were."
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"Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic."
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"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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"We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves."
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"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
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"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
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"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."
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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
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"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."
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"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
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"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."
Time,
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"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."
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"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."
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"Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder."
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"Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."
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"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."
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