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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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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He has a heart of gold - only harder.
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I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
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I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
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In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.
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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.
