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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The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.
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The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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If the televangelists are guilty of producing some simple-minded, self-righteous Christians, then the atheist authors are guilty of producing self-congratulatory buffoons like Condell.
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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.
