Richard Phillips Quotes

#1. People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

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#2. There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.

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#3. I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

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#4. Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show ... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

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#5. For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.

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#6. A fresh lightning tree sprouted in the distance as Mother Nature painted the sky in rapid strokes, strobed the results, and then erased her magnificent creation, leaving its after-image burned into Rolf's retinas. So beautiful. So fleeting. Like life itself.

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#7. Painting is a coalescing of experience.

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#8. This world will try to beat you down. Only laughter can counteract that. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often.

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#9. Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

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#10. As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.

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#11. Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.

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#12. Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.

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#13. My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.

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#14. Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.

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#15. When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

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#16. It reminded Freddy of the World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.

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#17. 'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

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#18. Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.

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#19. I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

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#20. My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

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