Malcolm Cowley Quotes
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I need to work to feel well.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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M&A guidelines need to be liberal.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
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Sunlight is painting.
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You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
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The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..
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When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.
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There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people
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It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
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In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
