"I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make."

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Gerhard Richter

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“In life there are worse things (then being fired by the Miami Marlins) and I have experienced them. I have lived through bad moments and I will get through this with support.”
“I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.”

Source : womenSports Magazine, September 1975.
“Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.”
“And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.”

Source : "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL". Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.
“I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.”
“The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.”
“A woman is subject matter enough.”

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