Arthur Erickson Quotes
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
