"I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity."

-- Willem de Kooning

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“I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.”
“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.”
“Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.”
“Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.”
“No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.”
“You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”
“Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.”
“I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.”

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