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Quotes by Artist
"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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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes."
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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
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"It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else."
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"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
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"All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art."
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"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."
Will,
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"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."
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"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."
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"Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off."
Time,
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"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face."
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"I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures."
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"People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are."
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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
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"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."
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"The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture."
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"For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence."
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"I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally."
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"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life."
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"I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff."
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"And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
Word,
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"Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well."
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"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
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