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Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.
George W. Bush
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it
Matthew Barney
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I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.
Anne Truitt
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I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
Anne Truitt
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The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.
Anne Truitt
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The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
Khalil Gibran
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The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
Anne Truitt
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January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.
Anne Truitt
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The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
Anne Truitt
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artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.
Anne Truitt
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I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
Anne Truitt
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I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.
Anne Truitt
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When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.
Anne Truitt
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The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
Anne Truitt
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I never decided at all to be an artist being an artist seems to have happened to me.
Anne Truitt
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
George W. Bush
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When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
Sylvester Stallone
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The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.
Paul Stanley
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
Billy Childish
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Hope and faith are two intimate brothers they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.
Sri Chinmoy
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
Robert Henri
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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...
Tracey Emin
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni
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Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.
Umberto Boccioni
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