Clyfford Still Quotes
I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
Quotes to Explore
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
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I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.
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Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
