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I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. Keith Haring
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People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
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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
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You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people. Greg Ginn
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I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me. Ad Reinhardt
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To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. Georgia O'Keeffe
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I think actually it's been a benefit to me that my work has been in quilt form, that I decided to quilt my paintings, which is what I do. Faith Ringgold
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I think about what I'm trying to say and recognize the fact that people may see what I see or may hear what I'm saying or may not.
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. Marc Davis