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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real. Martine Syms

Writing Intimate Feel Mostly Real Want Fiction

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value. Martine Syms

Value Think Way Entrepreneurship Creating

I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value. Martine Syms

Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago. Martine Syms

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There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too. Martine Syms

Sad You Reality Clothes Too Extremely Crisp Having Through Idea Absurdity Get Going Door Certain Amount

I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations. Martine Syms

Summer Television Would Up Grew Vacations Watching Tons

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. Mary Cassatt

You Fruit Think Tree Ought Shake Pick Around Falls Up

Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones. Masashi Kishimoto

Exaggeration Realistic Action Exaggerated More Scenes Like Force Forceful Although Stick May Lend Help Figures Cool Keep

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way. Matthew Barney

Somebody Types Everything Way Characters Physicality Tend He Towards Like Role Heavy Icons Stands Gravitate Brings

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it. Matthew Barney

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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body. Matthew Barney

Great Relationship Comedy Think Physical Physical Comedy How Tradition Movie Which Interested Really Body Acts Gravity

Art is when things appear rounded. Maurice Denis

Art Appear Rounded Things

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. Maurice Denis

Sincere Well Paint Necessary

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. Maurice Sendak

Made Savior Brother Bearable Had Childhood Who

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. Maurice Sendak

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To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. Maurice Sendak

Time You Trust Tell Lies Adult Tales Know Because Very Child Get May Used Hard Hard Thing Believing Thing

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. Maurice Sendak

Mother Father Stupid Scariest Written Stories Psychotic Ever

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. Maurice Sendak

Man Old Believe Typical Old Man Turned

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. Maurice Sendak

Crazy World Been Twice Ever

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. Maurice Sendak

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