George Rodrigue Quotes
Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
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You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.
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...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.
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Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
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The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
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Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.
