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Quotes by Artist
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
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"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained."
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"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."
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"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
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"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."
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"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."
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"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."
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"Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable."
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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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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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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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"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."
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"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
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"One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards."
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"I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else."
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"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing."
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"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end."
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"I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded."
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"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
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"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."
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"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."
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