Hans Hofmann Quotes
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
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Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life.
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A lot of people always question, 'What else can she do, what else can she do?' And I'm going to show you.
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Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
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Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
