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Quotes by Artist
"I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York."
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"And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something."
10
"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."
10
"The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified."
10
"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together."
10
"I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art."
10
"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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"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."
10
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
10
"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."
10
"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."
10
"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy."
10
"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."
10
"I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid."
Kids,
10
"There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book."
10
"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."
10
"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."
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"No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream."
9
"As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was."
9
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
Soul,
9
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
9
"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.'"
9
"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?"
9
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
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