Frank Auerbach Quotes
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
Quotes to Explore
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.
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My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.
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When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that everyone enjoys the same privileges that we do. We conveniently forget that there are others, sometimes our very own next-door neighbors, who suffer in ways that we do not.
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I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.
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I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.
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The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
