Anne Jackson (Anna Jane Jackson) Quotes
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
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'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
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I thought that the painter had no right to paint so unclearly.. ..(but) the first faint doubt as to the importance of an 'object' as the necessary element in painting.
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When we read what Goethe says about men we are ashamed of what we have said; when we read what he says about painting and statues we are ashamed of what Goethe has said.
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I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.
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I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
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I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
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Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.
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Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.
