Lucian Freud The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. – Lucian Freud Feels Quotes Invests Quotes Model Quotes Painted Quotes Painter Quotes Person Quotes Picture Quotes Preserving Quotes Qualities Quotes Worth Quotes There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
MIA When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn’t know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were ‘dance’ and ‘Michael Jackson.’ We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night. – MIA
Metro Boomin I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn’t buy any, so I just made my own. – Metro Boomin
Miriam Defensor-Santiago My father said, ‘Aren’t you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.’ And so that’s what I did. – Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Martha Beck Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a ‘good woman.’ The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess. – Martha Beck
Jeremy Piven We all have so many different elements inside of us and we’re not all one thing. – Jeremy Piven
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