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Quotes by Artist
"I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff."
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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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"I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music."
30
"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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"Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today."
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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
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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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"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
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"It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love."
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"I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did."
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"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream."
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"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."
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"I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience."
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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
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"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
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"Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity."
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"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
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"The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified."
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"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage."
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"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes."
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"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even-the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good."
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."
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"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head."
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