"A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric."

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Oil Quotes #Fabric Quotes #Woods Quotes

“In the human race today, you came last.”
“I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But like much else that the Indians gave us, we abused the privilege. And so, in my case I must simply stop. I'm too old to smoke. But I do believe that nicotine provides a great creative thrust.”
“It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.”
“Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.”
“I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.”
“Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.”
“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system”
“Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.”

Source : Gay Talese (1986). “Thy Neighbor's Wife”, Laurel

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