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You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

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Louise Bourgeois

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

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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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You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

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Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

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Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.

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