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Quotes by Artist
"So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration."
50
"Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next."
50
"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
50
"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
50
"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
Will,
50
"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
50
"They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up."
50
"Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable."
50
"The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull."
50
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
50
"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
50
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
49
"Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story."
49
"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."
49
"I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work."
Work,
49
"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
49
"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."
49
"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems."
49
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
Fire,
49
"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
49
"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."
49
"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."
49
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