Clyfford Still Quotes
These are not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.
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We have invested in many of our customers in the health care business by lending or leasing money for equipment purchases or investing in some customers to help them grow business.
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We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.
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Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.
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If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.
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These are not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.
