"I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible."

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Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

Laura Owens

#Ridiculous Quotes #Painting Quotes #Shame Quotes

“One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.”
“It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.”

Source : Kevin Brooks (2003). “Martyn Pig”, p.231, Scholastic
“I was a bad boy as a child.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.”
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”

Source : "Business Management Controls: A Guide". P. 55. Book by John Kyriazoglou, 2012.
“In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.”
“Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage”

Source : Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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