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Quotes by Artist
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
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"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."
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"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."
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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
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"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
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"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
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"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
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"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work."
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"Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished."
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"I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking."
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"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
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"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
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"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
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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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"One thing that success has taught me is censorship."
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"Contrast is what makes photography interesting."
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"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."
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"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
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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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"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
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"In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true."
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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
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"A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it."
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"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
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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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"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
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