John French Sloan Quotes
The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
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I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.
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A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.
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But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
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I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.
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The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
