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Quotes by Artist
"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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"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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"I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."
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"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."
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"Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that."
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"I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism."
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"Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back."
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"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
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"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."
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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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"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."
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"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."
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"There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them."
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
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"When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough."
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"But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication."
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"People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to."
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"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."
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"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
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"Animation had been done before, but stories were never told."
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"You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people."
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"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
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"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
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"I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on."
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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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