"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

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Source : Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

Jean Genet

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“Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.”
“A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.”
“Never let money get in the way of an idea”
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.”
“I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.”

Source : "Sculptures that engage your heart - and expand your mind". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 3, 2011.
“The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates”
“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.”

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