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1219 Artist Quotes

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Life Inevitably Colours Love
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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Create Heart Works Head
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Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

Despite Troubles World Love
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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art Life Everything Possible
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Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

Art Seems Above State
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In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Life Single-color Palette Meaning
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All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

Interior World Reality Perhaps
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You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

Wonder Hours Flowers Life
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For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

Stained Glass Window Transparent
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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Love Interest Contact Revolve
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Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Art Expression Love Nothing
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Free Soul Abstract Painting
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Dignity Art Lies Duty
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
Spring Movement Life-stream Unconscious
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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

Stars Friend Legends Phantoms
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
Great Art Picks-up Nature
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My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

Hands Special Occupation Kind
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The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

Real Guy Beat Would Be
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I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Characters People Having Hope Feels
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Our dreams make us large.
Dream Our Dreams Make Large
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

Men He Man Brushe Tools
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Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

Heart Kids Break Break Your Heart
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There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.

Hurt Lying People Suffering
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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Art Literature Common Publishing
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Art Artist Men Common
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

Men Giving Mona Lisa Come Up
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I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

Men Thinking Accomplish Feel
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Life at best is bittersweet.
Life Bittersweet Sweet Life Inspire
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Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.
Once Learned Enough About
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If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
Men Thinking Stealing Draws
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I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

Writing People Black Enemy
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Perfectionists are their own devils.

Perfectionist Their Own Devils
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I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

Interesting Settling Good Enough Enough
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All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
Capability Humans Want Human
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

A Character Contrived Like
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Lying Men Suffering Speak
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I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Men Good Man Trying Sincere
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I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

Army Life Taking Orders Discipline Yelled
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

Dirty World Language Comic
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I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

People Done Artistic Masterpiece
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I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

Never Done Anything Half Heartedly
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I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

People Done Beef Fingers
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I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Children Home Men Wife
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Feel Characters All Some Part
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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Always Am Color Happy
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Around Become Born Everything
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Appear Beautiful BeautifulWoman Beauty
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Beautiful Concerns Emphasize Itself
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Another AnotherTime Day Enough
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Bit Distance Does Flesh
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