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Quotes by Artist
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."
10
"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."
10
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
10
"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
Old,
10
"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."
10
"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
10
"I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking."
10
"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way."
Age,
10
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
10
"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft."
10
"My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway."
10
"From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now."
10
"Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do."
10
"Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really."
Now,
10
"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."
10
"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
10
"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
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"I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder."
10
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."
10
"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work."
10
"I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet."
10
"Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear."
10
"Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable."
10
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
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"It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
Will,
10
"I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters."
10
"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
10
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
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