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Quotes by Artist
"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."
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"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."
Job,
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"I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people."
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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
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"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too."
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"Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden."
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"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."
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"I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain."
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"But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment."
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"When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time."
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"The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art."
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"We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us."
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"My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same."
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"I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does."
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"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."
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"The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?' -Pablo Picasso."
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"What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts."
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"I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other."
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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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"It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important."
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"England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America."
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"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks."
Work,
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"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise."
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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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