"I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint."

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Source : "Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83" by Grace Glueck, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2011.

Helen Frankenthaler

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“I was a drummer and I played the guitar.”

Source : "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.
“The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.”
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.”
“It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?”
“Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.”
“Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.”

Source : Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.363, Villard
“A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.”
“Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.”

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