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Quotes by Artist
"The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex."
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"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
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"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
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"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."
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"It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment."
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"Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?"
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"We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks."
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"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ."
Art,
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"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."
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"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."
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"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."
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"It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart."
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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
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"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."
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"It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished."
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"Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off."
Time,
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"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
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"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between."
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"No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'"
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"Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear."
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"Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well."
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"I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World."
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"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
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"Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender."
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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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"Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar."
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"Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven."
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"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
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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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