Brice Marden Quotes
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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I'm in the fourth row, signing autographs at your show.
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Honest work is much better than a mansion.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.
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A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
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We, as a band, are going to try to do a remix pack for some of our latest songs and do as much as we can. Every single that we release gets that. That's the thing that we enjoy. You meet a lot of talented producers and DJs, you revisit friends and ask them if they want to do a remix, that's one of the beauties in it right now: hearing different versions of our versions and just being able to put those out, as well.
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Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.
