Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.
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I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.
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Why pour shampoo into a rabbit's eyes to see how much shampoo you can put in an adult's eyes before they go blind? I'll put them in my hair, in my eyes before I would give them to anyone else.
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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
