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Quotes by Artist
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
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"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh."
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"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them."
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"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
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"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."
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"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention."
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"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin."
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"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
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"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
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"Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes."
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"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice."
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"I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary."
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"In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself."
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"I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work."
Work,
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"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."
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"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
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