Aaron Huey Quotes
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.
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At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.
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There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
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At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.
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It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.