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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.

Black Brown Comics Loads
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Different Go Matter Modern
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Art Deeper Discover I Think
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Artist Energy Expressing Forces
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I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

Always Been Boy Cousins
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Age Airplane Any Artists
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I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Back Become Complacency Complacent
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Color Drawings Final Make
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Artist Every Good He
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What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
Establishment Like Look Me
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Big Brush Building Choose
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Actor Certain CertainWay Get
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Drove Hard He His
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You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Anyone Art Else Make
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I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.
Best Kindness Safety Trampoline
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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Become Borders Face Knows
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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Ages Allow Back Basic
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I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.

Around Die Greeks Love
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

Country Creations Economically Generation
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National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Bad Defense Direction Everything
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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Accept Accord Am Any
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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Actor Black Diversity Done
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Action Claims Countries Down
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Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Better Better Way Bulgaria Chances
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They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Great Great Opportunity Missed Opportunity
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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Asking Door Family Join
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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

Acts Any Appalling Both
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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

About Also Auditioning Character
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If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

Around Capable Commitment Create
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

France Insist Institutions Need
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Actually Only Pretend Pretended
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Entered Language Scene Soon
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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Certain Could Institution Longer
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Carries Discourse Even Every
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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
Arranged Culture Everything Way
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Argument Became Between Extra
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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

About Actor Body Brain
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Acceptable Escape Everything I Think
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

About Conversations Crucial Debates
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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

After Always Ashamed Back
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

According Always Deserves Familiar
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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

About Black Conversation Everywhere
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Being Difficult Give Just
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

African Also Bad Even
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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Argued Because Carrying Competent
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