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Quotes by Artist
"I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity."
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"It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
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"You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it."
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"Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun."
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"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
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"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."
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"Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around."
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"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."
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"An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it."
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"Animation had been done before, but stories were never told."
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"I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less."
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"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
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"I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting."
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"The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled."
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"Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart."
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"I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing."
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"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum."
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"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps."
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"These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people."
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"The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."
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"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
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"Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O gênio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demônios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista."
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"What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart."
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