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"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning."
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"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid."
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"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."
Truth
"Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it."
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"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."
Expectation
"You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much."
People
"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did."
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"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."
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