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Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.
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The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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I kept thinking, if his face was that wrinkled, what did his balls look like?
After drawing W. H. Auden
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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All painting, no matter what you're painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
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How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
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The reason you start painting yourself…is that you are a model; a cheap model. I mean you've always got yourself!
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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Tobacco may kill you but it's slow and it's rather a pleasure. People smoke for their mental health don't they? It's part of their total health, I'd say.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said "No Sketching." How obnoxious! I said, "How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?"
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Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
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Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.
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The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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July 9, 1937
(age 86)
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