"I was reading Kierkegaard and I came across the phrase, 'to be purified is to will one thing.' It made me sick. Art shouldn't be fanatical."
"Painting isn't the first visual thing that reaches your retina,...it's what is behind it. I'm not interested in 'abstracting,' or taking things out, or reducing painting to design, form, line and color. I paint the way i do because I can kepp putting more and more things in--like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space."
"And don't ever forget: nothing is postive about art, except that it is a word."
Quotes from WM DEKOOING.
"When you're down, when you've been kicked down in the street and then kicked a few more times until you're bleeding and your teeth are out, then you only have up to go. You get reborn again, and expectations aren't so great because they've taken you away. It's beautiful to be down there. It's so beautiful"-David Lynch
hmm...let me think about that one for a sec
Hip-hop, Jazz, and Blues...you can never go wrong w/a little Bessie Smith or Billy Holiday along w/some Muddy Waters and my Jazz men-Guy Lumbardo, The Bird, Sun Ra, and Goodman. Alicia Keys & Eryka Badu,Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Neil Young and Pink Floyd.
I like listening to my mom play her music too, she's one of the best!! My boy J hypnotizes me with his finger work on the strings of his guitar, very talent self taught musician.
Pecker, Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cecil B DeMented...JOHN WATERS IS A GOD IN MY EYES IN THE WORLD OF FILM.
Jean-Luc Godard, another one of my favorite directors...Pierrot le fou, bout de souffle (Breathless), Une femme est une femme (Woman Is a Woman),Mpris, Le (Contempt)
La Jette'-
Nos Fureto(s/p)
Easy Rider
South Park, basketball or hockey games, and Law & Order SVU.
'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau. Did you know that he lived in Minneapolis for a while?
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Live Girls Series)-Inga Muscio, Betty, Ph.D. Dodson
SLUT!-Leora Tanenbaum
Everyone out there trying to make a difference in the world.