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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

~Bill Griffith

Topics: Abandoned Art Because Being Comics Fine Fine Art Gogh Had Like Romantic Some Then Van Van Gogh Vision

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I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

~Bill Griffith

Topics: Art Art School Brooklyn Call Comics East Eight Fine Fine Art First New New York Other Painted Saw School Underground Until Village Years York You

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When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

~Bill Griffith

Topics: Acid Anyone Anyone Else Art Artist Before Began Early Else Just Like Pot Scene Smoking Student Who

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My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

~Bill Paxton

Topics: Art Bad Big Black Blazing Department Film First Mama Movie Movie Set Next Set Shot Turned Which Worked

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I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.

~Bill Paxton

Topics: Art Came Culture Dad Decided Exposed Filmmaker Films Growing Growing Up Guess He High High School Hollywood Just Lot Making Me Out Really School Started Theater Up Wanted I Came

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As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art.

~Bill Pullman

Topics: Actor Art Condemned Continually Deep Getting Go Guy His Inside Just Live Looking Out Really Riding Someplace Waves Whether Who Work Working You

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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

~Bill Sienkiewicz

Topics: After Art Art School Being School

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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Art Asleep Because Fast-Paced Industrialized Live Me Process Remain Soul Trying Up Wake Wake Up World

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In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

~Bill Viola

Topics: About Art Change How Late Made Major Mid Student Thinking

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A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Art Being Come Empty Just Literally Lot Making Open Place Putting Right Right Place Things Together Yourself

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