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Quotes by Artist
"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
Now,
30
"You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that."
30
"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
30
"The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death."
30
"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
30
"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"
29
"Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children."
29
"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
29
"But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes."
Want,
29
"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."
29
"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
29
"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."
29
"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
Life,
29
"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work."
29
"I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating."
29
"I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come."
29
"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."
29
"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century."
29
"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."
29
"But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were."
29
"A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it."
29
"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."
29
"If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three."
29
"I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me."
29
"And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman."
29
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."
29
"None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life."
29
"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life."
29
"I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while."
29
"I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters."
29
"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House."
29
"People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical."
29
"Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets."
29
"I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism."
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