Alfredo Jaar Quotes
My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'
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Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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Being a black person in America is exhausting.
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I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.
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Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.
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I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.
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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
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My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.
