Franz Kline Quotes
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
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I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I hear stuff that I like, I'll definitely gravitate to it and spin it in my own way. I'm a mixture of a lot of people, honestly, but I'm myself.
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
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How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.
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Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.
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If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.
