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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Balance is the enemy of art.
Balance is the enemy of art.
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but read more
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make read more
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is read more
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential read more
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
