"For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Team Quotes #Flower Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right back after them hard. We are really looking forward to getting after them.”
“I walk every day with my dogs and force myself to run a bit but I hate it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I thought America needed to see what a normal family was really like.”
“I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.”
“The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.”

Source : Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.1
“I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.”

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