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Quotes by Artist
"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."
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"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice."
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"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
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"I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind."
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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
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"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
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"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
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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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"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."
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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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"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"
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"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."
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"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."
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"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."
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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
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"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes."
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"There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats."
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"You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in."
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"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"
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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
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"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."
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"Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."
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