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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel. H. R. Giger
You Travel Like Go Hollywood Really Successful Painter
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that. H. R. Giger
Young Obsessed Like Boy Things
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust. Hans Haacke
Freedom Made National Politicians Statements Those Spin About Having Attempt Attention Supposedly Issues Dictate Very Arts Endowment Upset Holocaust Show Washington Museums
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake. Hans Haacke
Politics Art People Example Cited Promoted Like Line Sake Often Standard
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts. Hans Haacke
You Culture Lover Other Philip Corporations Out Someone Give Scenes Area Hostile Morris Prime New Particular Look Also Cultural Aura Itself Very York Suspect Behind Arts New York While Interest Themselves Turns Who Jesse Helms Presents
Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do. Hans Haacke
Want Holocaust Thing Last
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. Hans Hofmann
Together Must Colors Puzzle Pieces Fit Wheel
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. Hans Hofmann
Worship Development Leads Reaction Product Ignore
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. Hans Hofmann
Life Nature Experience Light Painting Pulsating Aim Emanate Insight Mystic Open Accordance Create Luminous Deepest
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. Hans Hofmann
Work Every Visual No Difference Follows Laws Abstract Makes Same Difference Whether Naturalistic Expression Fundamental Fundamental Laws
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann
Life Nature Creative Mind Constant Inexhaustible Stimulus Being Creative Mind
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. Hans Hofmann
Art Soul Become Every Medium Interview Emotion Mastery Contingent Integrated Stir May Impulses Which Us Expression Profound
We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not. Hasan M. Elahi
Own Our Whether Creating Aware Lives
It's really weird watching the government watch me. Hasan M. Elahi
Government Me Weird Really Watch Watching
How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time. Hasan M. Elahi
Time You About Something Online Students Talk Identity How Manage Your
We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry. Hasan M. Elahi
Art Generation Unlike Kind Along Like Know Look Industry Making Go Up Going Next Next Generation Tech
To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country. Hasan M. Elahi
Day Nervous Country Own Back My Own Coming Very Get
I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately. Hasan M. Elahi
People Will Other Define Ourselves Us Convinced
Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life. Hasan M. Elahi
Life Me Live Despite About Anonymous Private Surprisingly Information Available Publicly
I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?' Hasan M. Elahi
Work Me You People Medium Say Tell Kind Look Artist Just Paint
Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else. Hedda Sterne
Life Great Word Thought My Life Else One Word Always Were Referred Artists Wanted Anything Anything Else Moment Profession
I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. Hedda Sterne
Abstract Nor Expressionist
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. Helen Frankenthaler
Good Picture Once Immediate Good Picture Looks Happened Really Image
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once. Helen Frankenthaler
You Accident Control Once Ways Recognise Born Know Looks Felt How Surface Use Whole Eliminate
The question of sex will take care of itself. Helen Frankenthaler
Care Will Sex Take Take Care Question Itself
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. Helen Frankenthaler
Matter Every Sift Drawing Would Through Terms Subject Subject Matter Effective Wonder Size Worked Inch Paint
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