Dan Colen Quotes
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
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To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'
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Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
