Philip Guston Quotes
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
Quotes to Explore
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
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Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
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When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
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Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
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Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
