T. J. Clark Quotes
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.
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I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
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I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
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Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.
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When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
