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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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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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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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do.
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Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'
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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.
