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Quotes by Artist
"The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions."
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"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."
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"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
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"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."
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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
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"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
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"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
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"I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers."
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"It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw."
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
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"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."
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"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."
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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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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
Want,
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"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."
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"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say."
Want,
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
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"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."
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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
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"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"
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"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."
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"I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking."
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"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."
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