Jean Dubuffet Quotes
From the point of view of technique, I liked there to be internal lines in objects, I mean that instead of circumscribing forms, they animate the insides of things-the inside of formless and non-delimited areas. They function as internal textures and not primarily as contours.
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I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
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I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
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I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.
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Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
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It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.
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Now I'm standing alone in a crowded roomAnd we're not speaking.And I'm dyin' to know:Is it killing youLike it's killing me?Yeah.I don't know what to say since a twist of fate, when it all broke downAnd the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
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'I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.' 'Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?' 'I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?' 'You will have grown accustomed to it.'
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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.
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It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
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Jo, his wife, remarked on Hopper's painting 'Cape Cod morning', 1950: 'It is a woman looking out to see if the weather is good enough to hang out her wash'. Then Edward Hopper reacted: 'did I say that? You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window'.
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I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.
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The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.
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I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.
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I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.
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If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.
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If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.
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From the point of view of technique, I liked there to be internal lines in objects, I mean that instead of circumscribing forms, they animate the insides of things-the inside of formless and non-delimited areas. They function as internal textures and not primarily as contours.
