Carter Ratcliff Quotes
What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art...
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I'm a pretty big news junkie.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
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People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.
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The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
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What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art...
