"I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea."

-- Willem de Kooning

#Horse Quotes #Pain Quotes #Drama Quotes

“Is anything accidental?”
“We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.”
“They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.”
“Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.”
“In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.”
“I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.”
“Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.”

Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.142, Penguin
“Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that we wrote was "Out Of My Heart" which is the first single. As soon as we wrote that, we knew we just set the standard and every other song had to be as good if not better.”

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