Wolf Kahn Quotes
Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
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'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.
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I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
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I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.
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Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.