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Quotes by Artist
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!"
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"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
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"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
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"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
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"I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else."
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"When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years."
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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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"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world."
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"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."
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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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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
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"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that."
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"In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of."
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"Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio."
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"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object."
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"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."
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"Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable."
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"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
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"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."
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"Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that."
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"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."
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"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."
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"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."
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"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
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"I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart."
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