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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air! Camille Pissarro

Remember Side Air Slightest Pursuing Instinct Although Were Movement Full Forty Even Deeper

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. Carl Andre

Art Needs Sake Mean Ridiculous

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make. Carl Barks

Myself Unlucky Mistakes Victim Everybody Everything States Circumstances He Like Identify Make Him Felt Makes Always Person Donald Same Same Mistakes Who Many United United States

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts. Carl Barks

Old Kid About Ten Join Could Never Boy Boy Scout Years Scout Scouts Oh Where Wanted Ever Eleven

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own. Carl Barks

Great Book Better Great Deal Own Sense Took Plot Tell Simpler Had Part Make Because Deal Still Doing Cover Were Covers Than Gag Staging Story Little Incident Based Enjoyed

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. Catherine Opie

Light Everything Considered Photographs Situations

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. Catherine Opie

Relationship Photography Language Painting Very Interested

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him. Catherine Opie

Love Complete Kind Obama Supporter Him

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian. Catherine Opie

Problem Conservative Lesbian Considered Obviously Very Republican Realized Businessman Dad

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' Catherine Opie

Art Gay Lesbian Know Aesthetic Camp Just Such A Thing Thing

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. Catherine Opie

Construction Culture Build Our Masculinity Identities Within How Up Very

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that. Cecily Brown

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't. Cecily Brown

Time Myself Think Too Find See Studio Put Over Force Doing Precious Wall Get Hang Done Often Where Realise Which Aside Really Working Hard Paintings Thick Nearly Things

When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by. Cecily Brown

Balance Waiting Painting Possible Find Tables About New Daytime Felt Get York Just Moved New York Working Night

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident. Charles Marion Russell

Savvy Historian Happen Incident

I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing. Charles Pollock

Work Beautiful Art You Draw Drawing Drawings Take Computers Like Practiced Am Lot Off Size Really Full Measurements Drafting

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item. Charles Pollock

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more. Charles Pollock

Great You Big Past Pen Eye See More Computer Bottle Almost Like Most Industrial Go Person Hits Front Big Thing Your Chair Right Thing Things Designers

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul. Charles Pollock

Good Me You Soul Happy Feeling Edge New Things Nothing Say Those Easy Girlfriend Something My Soul Something New Fact Point Moron New How Doing Just Happen While Little Might Gonna Working Keep Good Feeling Things

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction. Charles Ray

Building Everything Direction Intellectual Boat Sculpture Reason

Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand. Charles Ray

Broken Like Boxers Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Noses Sculpture

I work very slowly. Charles Ray

Work Slowly Very

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