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Thing about animation is there are people
who associate it more with being a visual
art. I've actually always thought of animation
as more closely related to the performing
arts. So many of the same rules of acting
apply. In a lot of cases you don't have to
be a terrific artist. |
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The most important thing for me is the direct
observation of nature in its light-filled
existence. |
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+ Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. |
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I never liked photography. Not for the sake
of photography. I like the object. I like
the photographs when you hold them in your
hand. |
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The relationship between my painting and my
sculpture is intimately connected. I would
never begin a sculpture without first experiencing
color. |
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+ Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
+ I have always tried to hide my own efforts
and wished my works to have the lightness
and joyousness of a springtime which never
lets anyone suspect the labours it cost. |
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+ If people knew how hard I worked to get
my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful
at all.
+ Lord, grant that I may always desire more
than I can accomplish. |
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+ I try to apply colors like words that shape
poems, like notes that shape music.
+ I feel the need of attaining the maximum
of intensity with the minimum of means. It
is this which has led me to give my painting
a character of even greater bareness. |
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What I am seeking is not the real and not
the unreal but rather the unconscious, the
mystery of the instinctive in the human race. |
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+ Art is not made for anybody and is,
at the same time, for everybody. |
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+ My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
+ Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and
torment. |
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There are universal shapes to which everyone
is subconsciously conditioned and to which
they can respond if their conscious control
does not shut them off. |
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I am essentially a painter of the kind of
still life composition that communicates a
sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which
I have always valued above all else. |
| Berthe
Morisot quotes |
:::
famous artist :::
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+ It is important to express oneself...provided
the feelings are real and are taken from you
own experience. |
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+ Most painting in the European tradition
was painting the mask. Modern art rejected
all that. Our subject matter was the person
behind the mask. |
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+ Nature is not only all that is visible to
the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures
of the soul. |
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"Good
Art Quotes"
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