Larry Rivers Quotes
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.
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Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.
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Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.
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When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.
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God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.
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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.
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I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
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Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.
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Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
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The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
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There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
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I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.
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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
