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Quotes by Artist
"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."
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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
51
"I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters."
51
"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
51
"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
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"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"
Want,
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"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done."
51
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
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"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."
51
"Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see."
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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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"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."
51
"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
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"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."
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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
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"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
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"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist."
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"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
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"I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form."
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"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
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"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
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"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."
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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."
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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
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"Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something."
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"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."
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"I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings."
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"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."
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