"I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room."

-- Steve Kaufman

#Mom Quotes #Dog Quotes #Art Quotes

“My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.”
“I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.”

Source : "Dr. Drew" with Ryan Smith, www.cnn.com. November 3, 2011.
“Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.”

Source : Stephen Leacock, (2013). “The Boy I Left Behind Me”, p.79, Read Books Ltd
“Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.”

Source : "The Romance of Aeronautics". Book by Charles Cyril Turner, Ch. VII Lilienthal and Pilcher, 1912.
“Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.”
“What does my taste have to do with the personality of the person I'm working for? It's taking them through a journey of exposing them to stuff, and being able to form a dialogue between the place where they live and themselves. Other than trying to match the curtains to the couch, I don't know how to do that. If somebody asked me to design a really beautiful room, I don't know how to do that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album”
“What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.”

Source : Max Beckmann (2003). “Max Beckmann On My Painting”, Tate

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