Richard Phillips Quotes
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.
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Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.
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The imagery is getting a little more enigmatic. I'd like to think that it's getting a little more evocative without being more narrative.
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Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.
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In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
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I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.
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I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
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I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty 2013; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.
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I's only the things you don't do that you end up regretting: the women not courted, the paintings not painted, the paths not taken.
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Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.
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I'm someone that maybe people who don't know a lot about me actually know more of my songs than they think they do.
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My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.
