The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.
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I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.