Larry Rivers famous quotes
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Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
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I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.
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I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.
-- Larry Rivers
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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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I do not say anything from jealousy.
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Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
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