Philip Guston Quotes
But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
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She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
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But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
