"Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work."

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Source : "Cynthia Rowley Does Warhol". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 17, 2010.

Cynthia Rowley

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“You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.”
“Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”
“I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.”
“I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You couldn't quite figure out what was going on. And then, the people would very often do what they call speaking in tongues and I didn't know what they were saying. My father used to always say that if it can't be understood, then it's not the good news or not the gospel.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.”
“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.”
“But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.”

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