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Quotes by Artist
"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
85
"But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't."
83
"Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element."
Time,
82
"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."
80
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
79
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
79
"An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
79
"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
78
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
Film,
78
"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin."
78
"As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us."
76
"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."
75
"It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it."
75
"Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm."
75
"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
74
"Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature."
74
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
74
"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."
Car,
72
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
72
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
72
"Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know."
71
"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."
71
"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."
69
"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
68
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
68
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
67
"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
67
"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
67
"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."
66
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