Charles E. Burchfield Quotes
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Music is about the performance.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
