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Quotes by Artist
"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."
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"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
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"If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'"
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"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into."
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"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."
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"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction."
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"I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience."
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"There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink."
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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
Old,
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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
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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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"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely."
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
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"Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do."
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"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
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"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression."
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"I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder."
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"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."
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"I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet."
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"Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon."
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"Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism."
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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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"I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile."
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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
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"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
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"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."
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"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."
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"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment."
Want,
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"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
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"I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that."
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"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
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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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"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
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