Deborah Kass famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
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Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
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A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
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I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.
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My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.
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I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.
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Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
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My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of ***** if you're lucky.
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We are rough men and used to rough ways.
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When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
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