"If the artist starts evaluating himself, itâ€™s an enormous block, isnâ€™t it?"

--

Philip Guston

#Block Quotes #Artist Quotes #Enormous Quotes

“I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!”
“Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.”
“We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.”
“I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have had death threats from people with fixations.”

Source : "From the Heart". "You" Magazine Interview with Maureen Paton, January 8, 2006.
“It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.”
“Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.”
“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.”

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