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Quotes by Artist
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
Life,
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"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."
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"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
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"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."
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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
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"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."
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"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
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"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."
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"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
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"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
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"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."
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"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
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"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."
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"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
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