"Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might."

-- Jasper Johns

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“Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.”
“I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.”
“I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Adversity in life teaches you.”
“I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.”
“I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Fame is an interesting phenomenon.”

Source : "Fame According To Me" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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