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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study. Ad Reinhardt

You Painting Some Someplace Student Study Know Came Up Send Where Want Wanted Place Suggest

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing. Adam Hughes

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey. Adam Hughes

People Spent Tell Delaware Born River Riverside New New Jersey West Years West Coast Little Coast Whole Jersey Florence

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job. Adam Hughes

'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up. Adam Hughes

Time Woman Would All-Star Properly Never Taking Devote Well Still Referred Off Contract Up Wonder Wonder Woman Forever Get Ended Just Hold Spare Spare Time Realized Worked Less Less Time Agreed Eventually Right

Vampirism is like celebrity now. Vampires are these eternally young, thin, sexy apparitions of perpetual nightlife and absolutely nothing like their folkloric European boogeyman predecessors. We don't even make our vampires sleep in coffins anymore, or the ground. Adam Rex

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books, though I suppose, in general, I thought it might be fun to deflate all of the notions of vampire sexiness, secret societies, the idea that anyone could learn to divide the population of the world between fellow vampires and perishable food sources and expect to retain their humanity, etc. Adam Rex

Food Humanity World Thought Secret Books Though Vampire Vampires Sexiness General Divide Could Retain Idea Between Suppose Fellow Learn Read Perishable Sources Expect Anyone Etc Might Notions Fun Population Twilight Societies

After we got our first family car with a tape deck, my dad acquired exactly three cassette tapes: A 'Best of ABBA,' 'Private Heaven' by Sheena Easton, and the soundtrack to 'Xanadu.' I also unironically love 'Xanadu.' Adam Rex

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive. Adolph Gottlieb

Quality Out Color Make Intensity Want Express Utmost Expressive Bring

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. Adolph Gottlieb

Nature Think Point Never Abstract Use Paint Starting Starting Point

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting. Adolph Gottlieb

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life. Agnes Martin

Life Our Devotion Representation Artwork

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.' Agnes Martin

Vision Mind Thought Made First Satisfied Thinking Innocence Trees Still Came Happened Grid Then Painted

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Agnes Martin

Truth Experience Relentlessly Response Must Exactly Exactly What Pursue He Know Concern Material Same Any Artist May Artwork Theme Used

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. Agnes Martin

Horizontal Lines Just Certainly Paintings

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world. Ai Weiwei

Relationship People World Longing Extraordinary Has-Been Dreaming Point Week Outside Outside World Because Been Years Beijing China Turning Turning Point Games Moment Olympic Olympic Games

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. Ai Weiwei

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. Ai Weiwei

Art Creative Rights World Passion Impossible Human Rights Society Imagination Independent Pretence Totalitarian Individual Freedoms Calls Does Exist Itself Art World Human Anything Chinese Create Violates

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. Ai Weiwei

Time Family You People Obey Police Power Whatever Own Society Negotiation Tell All People Arbitrary Detention Laws Only Except Clearly Crush Days Like Discussion Any Want After Realise China Your Whole

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. Ai Weiwei

Life Political Old Internet Three My Life Living Thinking Liberal Later Background States Circumstance Ideas Course Parts Exercise Opinion Equipped Exile Years Very Quite Maybe Cannot Then Really United United States Earlier

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. Ai Weiwei

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours. Ai Weiwei

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor. Ai Weiwei

Art History Culture People World Old Nation Booming Tell Economy Around However Curiosity China Show Grow Appetite Actor

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