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I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.

Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.

I get so confused about life photography art.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Reality is not what it used to be.