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Quotes by Artist
"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."
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"You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
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"I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years."
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"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
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"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."
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"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
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"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
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"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."
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"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
Body,
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"What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts."
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"Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace."
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"I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization."
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"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."
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"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."
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"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
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"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
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"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller."
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"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."
Car,
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