Philip Guston Quotes
I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories.. Guston's quote in 1967, referring to his swift from Abstract expressionism to figurative painting
Quotes to Explore
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.
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I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.
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Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.
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I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories.. Guston's quote in 1967, referring to his swift from Abstract expressionism to figurative painting
