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Jasper Johns Quotes

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 15, 1930

Topics

Work Good You Artist Bad Interest

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

Good New Working Like

I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

Time School High School Long Three

It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.

Love Tired Think Feel You Want

'Last Man Standing' has been an amazing treat because it is the best day job you could have because we laugh every day. It lightened me up a bit because I tend to go to some dark places.

Best Day Job Man Amazing Treat

All these labels and praises scare me. I am very simple, and I feel like a newcomer because I never stopped learning.

Learning Simple I Am Me Feel Never

The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Travel Practice Citizenship Tool

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.

Mother Heart Me Meeting Person She

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

Michael Shermer

Light Space Window Universe Creation

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.

Louise Slaughter

Children Time World Bad Wrong Know

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

Style Best People Guitar You Say

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

I Am Realist Real Reason Whatever

I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at.

Fear February Seeing Back Right Up

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