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Mark Rothko Quotes

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970

Topics

Matter Timeless Only Tragic Subject

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Performance Reading Repeat Should

I love a bit of flag-waving.

Love I Love Bit

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

Life People View My Life Try Never

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

Stephen Graham Jones

Sad Simple Happy People Writing

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

Lie Better You Person Sin Tell

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

Job Believe Thought Doing Things

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

Rosanna Arquette

Women Fair Not Fair Many Roles Very

We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.

Learning Art Mind Learn Lesson Two

I have a shrink in New York and a shrink in Arizona, just in case. You never know when you will have a breakdown.

Lisa Lampanelli

New York You New Know Will Never

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

Christian Louboutin

Funny Dreams Women Sad Beautiful Me

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

Moment Me You Down Pictures Sitting

Denial is not always a bad thing. Without it, you couldn't function. For instance, if you were hyperaware and hypervigilant regarding all the dangers in the world - from driving your car to crossing the street to eating food that might have contaminants in it to taking medications that have many side effects, etc. - you would become frozen.

Car Food World Eating Driving You

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