"These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios."

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Source : Negin magazine, No. 77, 1971.

Guity Novin

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“The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.”
“Innovations until now conceived by no one at all”
“The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.”
“I wasn't angry the night I shot him.”
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

Source : On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence, in John Keats You Might as well Live (1970) p. 46
“You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.”
“Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.”

Source : "Lily Rabe’s Master Class". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2011.

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