Tom Wesselmann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
An artistâ€™s job is to captivateâ€¦ if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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