"The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand."

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Source : Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

Joe Bradley

#Art Quotes #Issues Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.”
“You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.”
“Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.”
“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”
“I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.”

Source : Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.73, Bantam
“To be immortal and then die”
“The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.”
“A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.”

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