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1219 Artist Quotes

Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

Hope True Strange Read
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It is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger…
Terrifying Rich People Dying
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You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.

Deserve Lover Reason Haste
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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Express Reason Invent Imagine
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

Audience Back Become Culture
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Art Break Bringing Cultural
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Although Another Beginnings Brooklyn
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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Anime Before Comics Even
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The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

Comics Detailed Graphic Influenced
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

About Artist Automatically Because
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I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

Around Burnt Child Disappeared
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I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.
Could Create Me Needed
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

About Before Drawing Fit
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Basically Breaking Breaking Up Come
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Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Blue Color Exact Field
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I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Alone Always Better Impressions
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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Always Corner Living Nature
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Able Become Being Flowers
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Color Joy Obsession Torment
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Artist Carries Composition Head
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Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

Eventually Learned Love Nature
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I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.

Air Beach Boats Fishing
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It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.

Become Calm Extraordinary Possible
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For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

Necessary Poor Possible Suffers
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I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Bad Baths Done Dream
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I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

Born Definitely Evil Naked
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Joy Noblest Pleasure Understanding
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Brings Day Death Happy
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Ancient Better Imitate Modern
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Awake Clearly Does Dreams
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Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning Mind Never Exhausts
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Bag Hand Hope Like
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Boards Cast Compass He
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
Breaks Her Laws Nature
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Does Eyes Ignorance Mislead
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Any Being Conscious Copies
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Attributes Colour Concerned Darkness
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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Always Colour Front Images
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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Earth Food Knowledge Man
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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Abound Among Another Delight
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Does Even Inaction Iron
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Been Die How Learning
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Although Commence Ends Experience
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Active Doing Genius Least
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Authority Much Nothing Silence
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Apply Been Being Doing
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