American Artist Quotations | Page 2

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

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.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

We made this really dumb decision to put on the cover nothing from South Park but just a real life photo of a piece of pooh dressed up like Mr. Hankey, and a lot of people didn't, they didn't even know what it was.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.

There are countless artists whose shoes I'm not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer! I'm beginning to doubt my judgment!

There are certain characters Bill Finger created, aside from my main characters' and many other characters that I created, including the Batmobile.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.

When the Minutemen opened for Black Flag shows, people hated them. We had to develop a Minutemen audience from different people.

We've never had any gigantic hits, or anything like that. Perhaps that has helped us because nothing has come easy. We've had to work consistently.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right' Sean's doing his own thing.

My first memory is of the brightness of light - light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground - very large white pillows.

My first job came the next year at 16.

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

I was pleased with the results but every time I look at both of those pictures, I feel a little bit of the pain I felt in trying to put it together.

I guess I feel like I'm cheating my audience if I don't give them what I feel is enough since the comic doesn't come out as fast as I'd like it to.

I got my experience drawing for school newspapers. I was drawing editorial cartoons and comic strips as far back as I can remember.

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

I graduated in June 1943, and July 1, 1943, I was sent to the Pacific. I was 17. I was just a kid. Wars are not fought by old men, they're fought by kids.

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

I created the title, masthead, the format and concept, as well as the Batman figure and costume. Robin, the boy wonder, was also my idea.

But certainly the Abstract Expressionists were in a more romantic mode of painting, or give and take, than my paintings are seen to be anyway.

I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation.

I feel that my original style was much more unique and individual and was much more the real me. It had much more zing and schmaltz.

I fought hard to get this episode on because it dealt with adoption, and how someone feels when they find out who their real parents are.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Have you ever read those reports of the toxic garbage they put in tobacco, because there are no federal regulations that say otherwise?

I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture.

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.

Jaime is doing the Hispanics living in the United States and dealing with life that way, and I'm doing stories about back home, basically.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

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.

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.

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.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

That ever since I've been a child I've been interested in art and been dragged through all the museums of Europe and had the sense to buy art books.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I think live action was something Walt always wanted to do and it took a long time for people to come around to letting him do that.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

That's the way I work. Usually I start by fooling with the stuff, make messes. Sometimes something comes out of it; sometimes it doesn't.

I wasn't athletic, I couldn't catch a ball, I couldn't throw a ball, I had all kinds of physical limitations as well. So this was it.

Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical.

Thousands of people are applying to work at every store we open. We must be doing something right.

Transparency in waiting times is much more relevant in an emergency. It's more important than infection rates.

You know, I been accused - people call me crazy like they did Noah, you know. Some people think I'm insane, like, maybe a percentage like insane?

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

We had an incredible staff, of some of the most talented in the business. Talent with egos that didn't get in the way. We all had the same goals.

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.