Larry Poons famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
-- Larry Poons
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
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