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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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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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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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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I was so passionate about wanting the role in 'Like Crazy,' I filmed myself in the shower because that's where one of the scenes was set. It just felt instinctive. It was a close up! It would have been strange if I'd sent off a wide shot of myself. That's not the kind of work I want to do!
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.
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Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
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Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.
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I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.
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I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.
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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
