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I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different. Frank Miller

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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. Frank Miller

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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd. Frank Miller

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere. Frank Miller

You Cinema Practice Medium Town Anywhere Hollywood

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time. Frank Miller

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues. Frank Miller

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Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe. Frank Miller

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When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. Frank Stella

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What you see is what you see. Frank Stella

You See

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. Frank Stella

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I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with. Frank Tashlin

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Religions die slowly. Franz Marc

Religions Slowly Die

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow. Franz Marc

Today Natural Tomorrow Will Appears

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity. Fred Tomaselli

Try Spirit Generosity Maintain Know Artist Populist

Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless. Frederick Carl Frieseke

Range Limitless Available Choices Your Now Right

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. Frida Kahlo

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When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog. Gary Frank

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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic. Gary Hume

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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's. Gary Hume

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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older. Gary Hume

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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can. Gary Hume

Work Political State Make Political Work Human

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