Jean Dubuffet Quotes
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action
Quotes to Explore
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I always watch the work I do.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
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They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
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Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
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I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action
