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Quotes by Artist
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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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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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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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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"If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'"
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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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"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."
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"It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else."
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"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."
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"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
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"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
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"Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."
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"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness."
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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
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"The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met."
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"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
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"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered."
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"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
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