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" An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. "
Mistake
Artist
Try
" Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses. "
People
Guilty
Conservation
" Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical. "
Humans
Smart
Elephants
" I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander. "
Her
She
Parents
" I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants. "
Day
Me
Sun
" I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves. "
He
Who
Word
" I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school. "
Art
American
School
" I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale. "
School
Africa
Art
" I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder. "
Good
Decision
My Life
" I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre. "
Drink
Con
Trouble
" I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable. "
You
Stress
Pressure
" In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate. "
Stuff
Live
New
" In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ. "
Lucky
Find
Hero
" It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there. "
Lying
Just
You
" I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography. "
Person
Common Sense
Never
" I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash. "
You
Never
Kind
" I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography. "
Time
You
Caring
" Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let's face it. And any little bit - you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it. "
Push
Want
Life
" My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board. "
Just
Never
Say
" The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized. "
Odds
Family
Children
" The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women. "
Left
Last
Nature
" We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other. "
People
Nature
Diversity
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