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Quotes by Artist
"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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"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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"I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms."
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"If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture."
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"I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed."
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"Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing."
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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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"If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three."
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"None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life."
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
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"Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism."
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"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object."
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"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."
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"But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great."
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"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
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"We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong."
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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 the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
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"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."
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"There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."
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"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."
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"I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script."
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"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
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