- Complaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.
- Different Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Play is the work of childhood.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020