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- All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
- It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
- Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean…
- It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
- All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
- There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
- We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
- Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants…
- I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense…
- Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I…
- No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may…
- Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we…
- 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…
- All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
- All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
- I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
- I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
- I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
- I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life.…
- Like people, trees are all individuals.
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle