Keith Fullerton Whitman Quotes
It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
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People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.
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There really isn't a formula for success.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.
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I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'
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I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
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In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
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It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.
