"I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint."

-- Bill Viola

#Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes #Oil Quotes

“The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.”
“Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours.”
“One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.
“My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria
“Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.”
“Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.”
“I always believed if you take care of your body it will take care of you”

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