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Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Chuck Close

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Camille Pissarro

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Damien Hirst

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

Fritz Scholder

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.

Hussein Chalayan

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

H. R. Giger

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Jasper Johns

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Martin Kippenberger

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Philip Warren Anderson

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Walter Annenberg

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

William Quigley

Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.

Willard Wigan

I've seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn't think so.

Reem Acra

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Alfred Adler

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Alexander Haig

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

George Grosz

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

Joseph Rotblat

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

Joseph C. Wilson

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Paul Fussell

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