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Quotes by Artist
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
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"Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated."
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"It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people."
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"I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it."
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"The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors."
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"Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about."
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"With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication."
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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything."
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"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge."
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"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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"To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming."
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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
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"I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory."
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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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"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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"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
Life,
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"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
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"It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good."
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"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
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"I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come."
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"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into."
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"We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks."
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"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence."
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"I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history."
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"You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors."
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"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery, the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."
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