"A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc."

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Source : "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.

Ilya Kabakov

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“A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds.”
“There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.”

Source : Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.60, Penguin
“From living in my own little secluded hell in this world, oblivious to the world around me, I found sanctuary with the bears, where I had made peace with myself of the consequences I have allowed while living in society.”

Source : "Steve Irwin - Interview With Timothy Treadwell - the Grizzly Man". Interview with Steve Irwin, desteni.org. June 1, 2007.
“In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.”
“We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.”
“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”
“I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.”
“On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.”

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