"I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English."

-- Francisco Costa

#New York Quotes #Father Quotes #College Quotes

“To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.”
“I've always been intrigued by things that insinuate femininity, so in my designs, something like a flower is never about the fact that it's a flower. It's more about what that repetitive motif implies.”
“To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.”

Source : Leah Stewart (2005). “The Myth of You and Me: A Novel”, p.52, Crown
“The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.”
“Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.”
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
“A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.”

Source : 1822 In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962-70).
“I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.”

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