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“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
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“You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.”
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“If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.”
― A Retrospective
― A Retrospective
“Curiosity is the main energy...”
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“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.
- 1959, from a catalogue”
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- 1959, from a catalogue”
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