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“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.”

“If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Hate Associates Just Do It Come Back To Me Redos

Author:Isaac Mizrahi

“When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.”

People Children Artist Asks

Author:Isaac Mizrahi

“The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.”

Kids Artist Enjoy Checks Really Happy

Author:Jock Sturges

“They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.”

Artist Left Clothes

Author:Jock Sturges

“Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.”

Character Artist Fun Felt Enjoy Drawing Having Fun Jerry Larks

Author:Joe Shuster

“Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.”

Firsts Artist Found Type Mets Pages Delight Intense Flash Collecting Collectors Flash Gordon

Author:Joe Shuster

“I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.”

Thinking World Should Has Beens Two Artist Successful One Day Should Have Stations Should Have Been Showcase Future World

Author:John Hench

“I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.”

Years Remember Artist Found Waiting Space Technology Needed Ten Mountain Models Difficulty

Author:John Hench

“I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.”

Ifs Would Be Artist Color Easier Picks Cameras Producers Developing Filters Motion Pictures

Author:John Hench

“Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.”

Artist Names Example Accepted Locals Prime Mickey Deja Vu

Author:John Hench

“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”

Knows Needs Kind Artist Courses Greater Our Lives Skills Losing Communicate Studios Enormous Symbols

Author:John Hench

“The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'”

Firsts Kind Artist Fighting Sky Particular Color Paint Driving Paris Hotel Grey Arriving Disneyland Cloudy Cloudy Day Cloudy Skies

Author:John Hench

“This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.”

Littles Artist Answers Happened Bird Jazz Restaurants Tape

Author:John Hench

“Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.”

People Kind Ideas Eye Artist Levels Common Understood Instance Horizon Walt Common Things

Author:John Hench

“We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.”

Ideas Moments Would Be Artist Courses Found Information Train Technique Budgets Get Better Separating

Author:John Hench

“Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.”

Wells Ideas Artist Died Hot Originals Tables Finished Supposed To Be Meals Seconds Caves Pirate Walt Original Ideas

Author:John Hench

“What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!”

Happens Artist Gone Pirate Skeletons

Author:John Hench

“And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.”

Artist Next Interest Models Copies Accurate Hung

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”

Feels Should Joy Artist Gains Delight Available Myth Our Society Palette

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.”

Knows Art Character Artist Know How Students Expected Anxious Art Students

Author:Norman Rockwell

“I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.”

Mind I Can Helping Artist Order Natural Talking Subjects Figures Expression Personality Size

Author:Norman Rockwell

“It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.”

Artist President Painting Clown

Author:Norman Rockwell

“I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.”

Use Artist Drug Cocaine Hallucinogens Recreational Drugs

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.”

Artist Flower Wall Sells Uptight

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.”

Artist Secret Ears Caught Rude Whispering Jagger Best Picture

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.”

Art Artist Photograph

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.”

Knows Artist Party Know How Cocktails Cocktail Parties

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.”

Facts Artist Conditions Ideals Parks

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.”

Thinking Needs Book Stories Artist Grows Audience Growing Up Couple Comic Sophisticated Comic Book Gang Rivals

Author:Todd McFarlane

“That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.”

People Trying Book Bigs Artist Stuff Break Independent Starting Tricks Comic Comic Book Break Out Speculators

Author:Todd McFarlane

“The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.”

Want Artist Minutes Couple Tests Hollywood Covered Belts Dvds

Author:Todd McFarlane

“The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.”

Ifs Want I Can Ends Film Artist Can Do Deals You Can Do It

Author:Todd McFarlane

“The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.”

Wanted Artist Fishing Hunting Sweaters Kitsch Orbs Hunting And Fishing Kilts

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.”

Way Artist Stuff Century Vote Keep Going Considering 20th Century Fringe Pals

Author:Charlton Heston

“You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.”

Thinking Knows Feels Art Artist Order Universal Significance

Author:David Cronenberg

“I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.”

World Looks Ideas Artist Song Comedy Involved Sitting Meetings Scripts

Author:Howie Mandel

“This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.”

Heart Young Artist Kindness Sadness Atheism Shapes Infinite Paradox Schemes Harmonious

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.”

Artist Atheism Limits Criminals Likes

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.”

Want Should Artist Wish Successful Careful Being Successful Bottles Be Careful Entertainers Genies

Author:Ice Cube

“You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.”

Knows Way Want Children Littles Different Kids Artist Seeing Achieve What You Want Observation Different Ways Surprising

Author:Tim Burton

“A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.”

Real Hard Play Artist Song Games Records Fans Style Radio Ems

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.”

Artist Culture Involved Battle Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.”

Trying Artist Levels Childlike

Author:Kanye West

“For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.”

Able Life Is Artist Individual Amount Mass Aspect Transparent Relatable

Author:Macklemore

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