"If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it."

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Claes Oldenburg

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“Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.”

Source : Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 1998.
“I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.”
“Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems”
“We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1872). “Poems of Felicia Hemans”, p.382
“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.”
“The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.”

Source : "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.
“Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.”
“My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.”

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