"Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation."

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Source : "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.

Mary Heilmann

#Simple Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Meditation Quotes

“Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."”
“A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.”
“If you're 5' 6", just stay home. Don't pretend you're 5' 8" or 5' 9". If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that's fine, you can do glamour, but you're not going to do runway. If you're over 29 - 26, even - I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.”
“I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out.”
“You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?”
“I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.”
“The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.”
“Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.”

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