"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward."
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"I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful"
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"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
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"A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations."
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"Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon."
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"So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers."
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"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."
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"That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being."
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"I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia."
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"Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person."
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"The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds."
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"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."
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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
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"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."
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"The purpose of art is mystery."
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"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate."
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"We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters."
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"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
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"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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