"You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

John Currin

#Intelligent Quotes #Needs Quotes #Levels Quotes

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
“I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.”
“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music...”
“I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.”
“It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.”

Source : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Maybe one day youâ€™ll understand I donâ€™t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.”
“I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire.”

Source : Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “I Love You”
“Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.”

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