"Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits."

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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“I came from a huge extended family of musicians.”
“I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.”
“I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.”
“I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.”
“Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you donâ€™t see the same view twice. Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list. Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed. Not going back so that you can fly. Fly.”
“Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?”
“Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.”
“We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.”

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