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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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"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."
"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
"Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over."
"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."
"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
"We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people."
"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."
"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."
"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."
"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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