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Quotes by Artist
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
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"I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist."
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"Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically."
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."
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"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too."
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"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."
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"Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal."
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"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."
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"But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain."
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"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."
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"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."
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"Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today."
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"But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years."
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"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."
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"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then."
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"I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up."
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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
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"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
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"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
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"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."
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