Arshile Gorky Quotes
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
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Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.
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I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.
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I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.
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Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.
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After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.
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My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.
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As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.
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Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.
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I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
