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Quotes by Artist
"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."
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"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."
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"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
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"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it."
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"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real."
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"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
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"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
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"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."
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"George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already."
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"The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."
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"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
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"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
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"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage."
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"An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
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"As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up."
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"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."
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"There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way."
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"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted."
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"While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate."
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"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
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