Philip Guston Quotes
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
Quotes to Explore
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
