"For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together."

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

Laura Owens

#Struggle Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.”
“In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets ... The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession.”
“I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.”
“Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.”
“When you give in to aversion and anger, itâ€™s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.”

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