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I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
John Lurie
Tags: Just More Out
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.


Yayoi Kusama
Tags: Want Many I Can
I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
Yayoi Kusama
Tags: Future Life Been
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
Andy Warhol
I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.
Marion Bartoli
My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.
Mike Mignola
Tags: Me Just Get
'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.
Wynter Gordon
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I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
Amanda Burton
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I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.


Kevin Dillon
Tags: Good Like Up
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Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.


Robert Indiana
Tags: First Many Come
I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.
Nikki Reed
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I don't have any preconceived ideas of myself. I just take things as they come.


Lea Seydoux
Tags: Just Things Any
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.


Ridley Scott
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My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.


Lloyd Kaufman
Tags: Always Most Film
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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.


Maria Weston Chapman
Tags: Good Out Come
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.


Agnes Martin
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A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.


Theodore Roethke
Tags: You Will Come
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.


Abraham Lincoln
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If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
Steven Johnson