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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always. Rabih Alameddine

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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy. Rabih Alameddine

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When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart. Raoul Dufy

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I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. Rebecca Sugar

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I love comics. Comics are something I've always wanted to do. Rebecca Sugar

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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. Rene Magritte

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The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do. Richard Artschwager

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My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. Richard Diebenkorn

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With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway. Richard Diebenkorn

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There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. Richard Phillips

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Painting is a coalescing of experience. Richard Phillips

Experience Painting

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise. Richard Phillips

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For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse. Richard Phillips

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Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure. Richard Phillips

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There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy. Richard Phillips

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If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have. Richard Phillips

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