"I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it."

-- Helen Frankenthaler

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“Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.”
“One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and clichÃ©-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.”

Source : Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey (2007). “Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes”, p.41, University of Michigan Press
“The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.”

Source : Kate Simon (1959). “New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill”
“Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.”
“Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.”
“If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.”

Source : "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.
“Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?”

Source : "Fictional character: Clarence Oddbody". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.
“You always want to have good balance. Thats the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.”

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