"Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that.""

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jose Parla

#Hate Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.162, Penguin
“The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.”
“And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppyâ€™s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.â€ (Charles)”
“Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.”
“On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.”
“Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.”
“I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet,”
“Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971

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