Antoni Tapies Quotes

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Antoni Tapies

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• I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.

  

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• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

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• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

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• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

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• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

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• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

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• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

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• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  

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• The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

  

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• It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

  

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• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

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• The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

  

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• Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

  

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• I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Political
  • Ideas
  • Moral