I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not … - Louise Bourgeois

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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Louise Bourgeois

I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.

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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

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If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

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My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

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You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

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When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

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Lord Acton

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. . .

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Edwin Powell Hubble

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

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Mark Zandi

In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.

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Archibald MacLeish

Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.

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