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+ There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist’s dung
can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. There’s a squad of conservators out
there to look after anything an artist decides is art. |
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+ Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise
of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting. |
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+ I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested
in the business side. |
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+ I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see
crackling trees and wild winds. |
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+ I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping
to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute. |
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If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd
write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! |
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I'm not precious about my work. If you get it out into the urban field it's going
to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging
what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day. |
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I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them.
I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press,
but they were going gangbusters with sales. |
| Shih't
ao | :::
chinese artist ::: | |
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+ I meet the world as it comes, yield superficially to the hustlers, and thus
achieve peace of mind. With peace of mind comes a painting. |
| John
Singer Sargent | :::
famous artist ::: | |
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+ Everytime I paint a portrait I lose a friend. |
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I like living in the 20th century.. to me the world has never been more beautiful.
I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my
own eyes. |
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+ I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard
to be old and like what goes on around you. |
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| "Fine
art quotes" |
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