Elaine de Kooning Quotes
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.
Elaine de Kooning
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Dan Brown
Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
Jack Schwartz
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
T. Harv Eker
I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
Rafael dos Anjos
The vocal parts are really interesting because it's the first album that we - as a band - haven't been aware of what Thom's singing about. He didn't talk about his lyrics.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
John Ruskin
I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
Agnes Varda
I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.
Elaine de Kooning
