"On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion)."

-- Gustave Courbet

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“What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.”
“Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.”
“My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.”
“There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.”

Source : James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.334, St. Martin's Griffin
“It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.”
“He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.”
“I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.”
“When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.”

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