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Quotes by Artist
"I believe in the immortality of all creatures."
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"We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas."
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"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."
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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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"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty."
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"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."
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"The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga."
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"Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes."
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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public."
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"How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges, they have been with us from the very beginning."
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
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"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
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"And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that."
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"We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'"
Fun,
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"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."
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"For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first."
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"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."
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"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
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"No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon."
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"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
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"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."
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"I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective."
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