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Quotes by Artist
"And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time."
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"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass."
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"Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life."
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"See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality."
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"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
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"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
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"Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live."
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"Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer."
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"The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal."
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"I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts."
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"As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through."
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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
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"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"
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"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."
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"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying."
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"We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired."
Will,
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"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"
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"If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him."
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"Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings."
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"The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea."
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"How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it."
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"That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect."
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"The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care."
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"Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement."
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