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Quotes by Artist
"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done."
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"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"
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"I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great."
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"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."
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"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
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"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."
Fact,
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"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
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"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks.""
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"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
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"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
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"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
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"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."
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"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."
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"I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience."
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"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
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"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."
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"Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others."
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"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
Will,
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"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."
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"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."
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"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
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"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them."
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"Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier."
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"Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left."
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