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Quotes by Artist
"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
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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 am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."
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"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything."
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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
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"They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up."
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"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."
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"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
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"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
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"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape 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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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
Want,
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"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."
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"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
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"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
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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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"I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings."
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"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
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"Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw."
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"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
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"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
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