"I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre."

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Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

Laura Owens

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Other Cultures Quotes

“I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!”
“Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.”
“Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.”

Source : Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation
“Weâ€™re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
“The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasnt me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldnt do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.”
“Politeness costs little and yields much.”
“And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.”
“Wonder is our need today, not information.”

Source : Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.689, Knopf

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