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Quotes by Artist
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
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"I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils."
35
"But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating."
35
"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
35
"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
35
"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
35
"As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up."
35
"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."
35
"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."
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"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here."
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"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
35
"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
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"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."
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"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."
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"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
34
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
34
"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
34
"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment.""
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"Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before."
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