"Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant."

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Eric Fischl

#Education Quotes #Artist Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely established that in its deepest places, for instance, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Earth's crust is devoid of granite stratum. The same may be said quite confidently about the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Could the interpretation of these data be that inland seas were the primary stage of the formation of oceanic basins?”
“Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.”

Source : Jack Woodford (2012). “The Autobiography of Jack Woodford”, p.299, askmar publishing
“While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.”

Source : "The autobiographical pact: otherness and redemption in four French avant-garde artists". Book by Cosana Maria Eram, p. 20, 2010.
“In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholicâ€”until the day I learned that animals have no souls.”
“Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.”
“The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?”
“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”

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