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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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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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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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.
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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..
