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- I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
- Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only…
- I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper,…
- In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
- It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes…
- With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired…
- The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and…
- The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is…
- 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…
- As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
- It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
- I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought:…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle