"What excites me and what I find most compelling is clearly not what excites other artists. It comes from my own idiosyncratic background and what I'm drawn to. Maybe this is a result of having lived in Naples during a formative period of time. I'm interested in telling a unique story in a very intense way."

-- Philip Taaffe

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“I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.”
“O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79
“The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.”

Source : Source: www.fuse.tv
“My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”
“Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.”

Source : "From the TV sofa to the dugout: Alan Shearer plots grand return". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
“Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.”
“I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.”
“It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.”

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