Hans Hofmann Quotes
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Unconfessed sin cuts off our communication with the Father.
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We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
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When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
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I sometimes feel less than empty; I feel non-existent. Still, I endure. I refuse to give up.
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There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
