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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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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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 most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.
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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.
