Jackson Pollock Quotes
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.
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Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
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Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
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Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
