"As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They are totally painting (whatever that may mean). On the other hand, they are so like the photograph that the thing that distinguished the photograph from all other pictures remains intact."

-- Gerhard Richter

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“The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.”
“To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.”
“I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.”
“Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.”
“I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants.'”
“Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.”
“Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.”

Source : Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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