"I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing."

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Barry McGee

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“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
“I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.”

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“Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.”
“I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.”
“...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.”
“I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.”
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
“I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.”

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