"I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

John Currin

#Artist Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Excited Quotes

“Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.”
“A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.”
“Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?”
“Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.”
“I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.”
“Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.”

Source : "Introducing Regular Expressions". Book by Michael Fitzgerald, 2012.
“...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.”
“Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.”

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