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I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things. Gerhard Richter

Life Love Day Every Day My Life Every Spend Architectural Could Studio Making Arranging Go Models Plans Paint Things Playing

Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself. Gerhard Richter

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I can't paint as well as Vermeer. Gerhard Richter

Well Paint

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages. Gil Kane

Words Other Paper Never In Other Words Shortages Harmed

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers. Gil Kane

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space. Gil Kane

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it. Gil Kane

Only Print Were Up Did Pages Used Company

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff. Gil Kane

First Inside Charles Guy Simon Stuff Named First Of All Covers Jack Did After While Used Who

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything. Gil Kane

Everything Saw Structure Never Anything Sensory

What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us. Gilbert Baker

People Our Our People Given Us Connects Thing Rainbow

A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits. Gilbert Baker

Sky Something Fits Flag Rainbow

The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them. Gilbert Baker

People Own Something Because Flag Endures Them Means Reason Rainbow

Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do. Gilbert Baker

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My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship. Gilbert Baker

Time Relationship Speak Long Parents Long Time Rebuild Took Years

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished. Gilbert Baker

Love Me Guilt Carried Vanished Shame Fell Years Suddenly

Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits. Gilbert Baker

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Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle. Gilbert Baker

Struggle Liberate Our Evolving Sexuality Ongoing Human Movement Human Right Right

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed. Gilbert Hernandez

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