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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Ann Coulter to me is someone who says things that I say all the time, but I say them at three in the morning when I'm drunk as a monkey. She says them at three in the afternoon stone sober in bright daylight.
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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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I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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Who says you only get one? If you're lucky, you will meet The One, The Two, The Three.....and so on. Nesta
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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.
