Bob Colacello Quotes
He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.
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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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When do we reach a point where people become responsible for their own actions?
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But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
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He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.
