"I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions."

-- Claes Oldenburg

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“The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.”

Source : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.
“Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.”
“I'm not a jazz singer.”
“I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.”
“I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.”
“I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.”

Source : Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications
“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.”
“One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.”

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