Top 33 Currin Quotes

#1. When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

James A. Baldwin

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#2. You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh ... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

John Currin

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#3. I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

John Currin

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#4. In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

John Currin

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#5. There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. - John Currin

Austin Kleon

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#6. John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Jerry Saltz

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#7. She reminded me that I could write stories,/
could be struck by lightning & live.

Jen Currin

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#8. For there's sweeter rest
On a truelove's breast
Than any other where.

Susan Price

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#9. Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need,

John Currin

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#10. That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.

John Currin

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#11. Dedication to God gives women strength, no matter what others do.

Neva Coyle

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#12. Your style is who you are when you're not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

John Currin

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#13. The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.

Adolf Hitler

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#14. Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

John Currin

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#15. I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it.You should never will a change in your work-you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

John Currin

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#16. There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value to something that only has value because a certain number of people agree to believe in that value?

John Currin

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#17. Learn your past, find your path.

Kool Moe Dee

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#18. A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.

John Currin

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#19. I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

John Currin

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#20. There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.

John Currin

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#21. After something really bad happens, the next worse thing is people feeling sorry for you about it. It's like confirmation that something is terribly wrong.

Ava Dellaira

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#22. Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

John Currin

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#23. The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Ella Fitzgerald

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#24. Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

John Currin

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#25. There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

John Currin

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#26. I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

John Currin

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#27. He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

Ann Brashares

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#28. Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

Angela Davis

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#29. I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

John Currin

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#30. I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Fred Durst

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#31. It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

John Currin

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#32. A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

John Currin

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#33. It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.

John Currin

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