"I think what I do is find a clichÃ© and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it."

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Source : John Currin, Frédéric Paul, Keith Seward, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1995). “John Currin: œuvres/works : 1989-1995”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

John Currin

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.”
“Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water," the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.”
“My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.”
“For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
“You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.”
“Be brave enough to create.”
“It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.”

Source : Jon J Muth, Jon J. Muth (2015). “Zen Ties”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.
“There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.”

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