Jerry Saltz Quotes
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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All of us grow.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
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Lord of humankind.
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I've appeared three times on 'The Good Wife.' I'm proud of being associated with the show. 'Time' magazine called it 'the best thing on TV outside cable.' Did I mention that I also appear on cable?
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For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
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John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
