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Quotes by Artist
"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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"But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating."
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"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
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"The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal."
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"The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga."
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"An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
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"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist."
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"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."
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"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."
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"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."
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"As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through."
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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way."
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"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas."
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"Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist."
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"I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later."
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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat."
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