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Quotes by Artist
"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
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"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
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"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
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"I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy."
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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
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"By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that."
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"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."
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"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it."
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"Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible."
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"They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant."
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"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."
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"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
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"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist."
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"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."
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"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
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"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials."
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"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."
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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
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"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
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"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."
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"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
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"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."
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"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'"
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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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"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."
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"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
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