William Friedkin Quotes
You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.
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I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.
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I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.
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I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!
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I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
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You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.
