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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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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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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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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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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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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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Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."
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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
