Philip Johnson Quotes
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
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How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
