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Quotes by Artist
"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."
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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
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"I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up."
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"For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all."
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"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
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"When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?"
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"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."
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"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind."
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"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
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"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."
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"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
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"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."
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"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."
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"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
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"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."
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"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue."
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"I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality."
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"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."
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"And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them."
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"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life."
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"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."
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"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
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"Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys."
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"Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist."
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"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
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"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."
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"Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."
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"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
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"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
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