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Quotes by Artist
"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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"You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that."
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"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
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"Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments."
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"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."
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"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."
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"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
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"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
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"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
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"I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives."
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"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
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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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"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."
Fire,
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"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube."
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"Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are."
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"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
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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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