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Quotes by Artist
"I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script."
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"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
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"Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'."
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"But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else."
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"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
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"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery, the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
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"I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need."
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"Fine gold is recognized when it is tested."
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"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about."
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"Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter."
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"I want to live like a poor man with lots of money."
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"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."
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"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
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"Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it."
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"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence."
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
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"If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes."
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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
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"The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent."
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"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."
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"I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting."
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"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time."
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"Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction."
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