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Quotes by Artist
"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."
7
"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."
7
"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
7
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
Fire,
7
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
7
"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."
7
"We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas."
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"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."
7
"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
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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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"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
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"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."
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"Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you."
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"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller."
7
"The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull."
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"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
6
"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
6
"I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation."
6
"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
6
"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
6
"At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you."
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"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
6
"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
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"It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people."
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"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
Love,
6
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
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