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User talk:Dinni0724~enwikiquote

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User talk:Captain Winkie

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User talk:Zazzer~enwikiquote

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User talk:MrBretticus

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User talk:I'm not afraid to keep on livin'

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User talk:Geekboy6

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User talk:Yurtishome~enwikiquote

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User talk:Cochran3726

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User talk:Parfaitement inutile

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User talk:Birdcall~enwikiquote

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User talk:Acornwithwings

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User talk:Jenolen

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User talk:Cutietotsz

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User talk:SquareTraveler

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User talk:Polynomial~enwikiquote

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User talk:Sanpran~enwikiquote

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User talk:Futurebird

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User talk:Abona~enwikiquote

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User talk:Datomyzer

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User talk:Diarmada~enwikiquote

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User talk:Leeflow1

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User talk:216.125.163.44

Thanks for experimenting with the page Frank Lloyd Wright on Wikiquote. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our compendium of quotations. Thanks. —LrdChaos (talk) 17:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

- InvisibleSun 18:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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User:Zaui

See my Wikipedia user page.

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Flavius Josephus

Flavius Josephus (37–100 CE) was a 1st-century Jewish army captain and later became an author. He was actively involved in the Jewish war with the Romans that climaxed in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. After 70 he went to Rome and dedicated his life to writing. He wrote two history works: He also wrote:
 * The War of the Jews, De Bello Judaico, which he says was a translation of an earlier version written in Chaldaic Hebrew.
 * Jewish Antiquities, Antiquitates Judaicae
 * The Life of Flavius Josephus, Vita, an autobiography.
 * Against Apion, Contra Apionem, a polemic against Antisemitism
 * Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades, an short essay on the Jewish Pharisees' view of the afterlife.

Quotes

 * And when the book of Daniel was showed him [Alexander the Great] wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended.
 * Antiquities of the Jews (source) (c. 94 AD), Book 11.8.5, trans. William Whiston

The Jewish War (source) (c. 75 AD)

 * Now Antiochus was not satisfied either with his unexpected taking the city (Jerusalem), or with its pillage, or with the great slaughter he had made there; but being overcome with his violent passions, and remembering what he had suffered during the siege, he compelled the Jews to dissolve the laws of their country, and to keep their infants uncircumcised, and to sacrifice swine's flesh upon the altar; against which they all opposed themselves, and the most approved among them were put to death.
 * Book 1.1.2

 * Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.
 * Book 3.5.1, trans. William Whiston

 * I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.
 * Book 3.8.3, trans. William Whiston
 * (regarding his defection to the Roman Empire)

 * Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.
 * Chap. 5, opening, trans. G. A. Williamson

 * Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else.
 * Closing words, trans. G. A. Williamson

Quotes about Flavius Josephus

 * Josephus failed to organize a strong stand against the Romans. The Jewish forces suffered setback after setback. Finally, Josephus and his men were forced to retreat to the fortress of Jotapata. After a siege of two months, Jotapata fell. The forty men who were left in the fortress killed themselves before the Romans entered it. Of all the brave fighters of Jotapata, only Josephus and his armor-bearer survived, and they were taken prisoners by the Romans. They had not joined the others who preferred death to dishonor.
 * Ruth Samuels, Pathways Through Jewish History, Chapter XIII, p. 126

 * Titus had a strange companion in those days: Josephus, the descendant of the Maccabees. From the enemy camp, Josephus now called Josephus Flavius, after the family of Vespasian and Titus, watched the defeat of his people.
 * Ruth Samuels, Pathways Through Jewish History, Chapter XIII, p. 127

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W. J. Woodhouse

W. J. Woodhouse was an Australian historian.

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 * This was Macedonia in the strict sense, the land where settled immigrants of Greek stock later to be called Macedonians.
 * "The tutorial history of Greece, to 323 B.C. : from the earliest times to the death of Demosthenes", p. 216, University Tutorial Press, 1904, (reprinted 1944)

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Mortimer Chambers

Mortimer Chambers is a Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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 * Macedonia (or Macedon) was an ancient, somewhat backward kingdom in northern Greece. Its emergence as a Hellenic (Greek) power was due to a resourceful king, Philip II (359-336), whose career has been unjustly overshadowed by the deeds of his son, Alexander the Great.
 * "The Western Experience", p. 79, Mortimer Chambers et al, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2nd edition, 1997

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American Gothic (TV series)

American Gothic (1995–1996) is an American television series created by Shaun Cassidy, airing on CBS, set in the heart of South Carolina in a small town called Trinity. In this town not everyone are as they seem and everyone seems to follow their leader, Sheriff Lucas Buck... who might not be as human as he seems.

Pilot [1.1]

 * Lucas: I've heard it said that the American dream is a thing of the past. That the basic tenets of home, job and family are slipping away. Well, not in my town. Where I come from that dream is still a reality. Of course, you have to know who's boss. For those who follow my lead, life can be a paradise. But for those who don't it can be a mighty rough road.

 * Ben: Why are you doing this to me?
 * Lucas: Just another lesson in perception, Ben. All guilt is relative, loyalty counts, and never let your conscience be your guide.

 * Lucas: Look here boy, only two roads in this world and if you're listening to anyone but me, you're on the wrong one.

 * Ben: You got no conscience about anything, do you?
 * Lucas: Conscience is just the fear of getting caught, Ben.

 * Merlyn: Someone's at the door.

A Tree Grows in Trinity [1.2]

 * Lucas: You told me this was handled.
 * Selena: Well I'm sorry Lucas, but I just couldn't hurt him.
 * Lucas: So you kept him as a pet?
 * Selena: I liked him, okay? To tell you the truth he kind of liked me.
 * Lucas: This is a real problem, Selena.
 * Selena: Well look, if the doctor finds him before we do, maybe it's not such a bad thing. Raphael hasn't been eating lately and I've been kinda worried about him.
 * Lucas: Raphael is a reporter and he's gonna report things.
 * Selena: He won't say a word.
 * Lucas: Oh really? What you do, bite off his tongue in a fit of passion?

 * Merlyn: Why are you still running?
 * Caleb: Daddy's dead Merli. I've seen his grave, yours too. Everybody's dead.
 * Merlyn: Not everybody... [indicates the room with the bound prisoner]
 * Caleb: I ain't going in there!
 * Merlyn: That man needs your help.
 * Caleb: He's a monster!
 * Merlyn: No. Can't you understand his pain, Caleb? He's just hurt. I would think you could understand that, Caleb.

 * Merlyn: Caleb, it's nice to see you again.
 * Caleb: For me too, Merli. The Sheriff is after me, he thinks he's my Daddy.
 * Merlyn: Well what do you think?
 * Caleb: I think he's crazy! This whole thing is crazy.
 * Merlyn: He wants to raise you in his image, Caleb. You can't run forever.

Eye of the Beholder [1.3]

 * Judge: Miss Combs?
 * Selena: Oh, thank you Judge. Well, I'd just like to say for the record, that I admire Miss Emory tremendously. I mean, when she told my class about living in a crack house for two weeks, just to do a first person story and how scary it was, they were all very impressed. I know I wouldn't have that kind of courage.

Damned If You Don't [1.4]

 * Merlyn: Caleb? You did real good. I'm proud of you. We're all proud of you.
 * Caleb: You was there? And Momma?
 * Merlyn: We were all there Caleb.
 * Caleb: I knew it. I could feel it Merlyn. I was happy.

Dead to the World [1.5]

 * Gail: [reading some of Lucas' poetry] My heart sings to you like the joy of a thousand trumpets.

 * Selena: Maybe we'd like to take another pass at this? [indicating Caleb's friend's homework]
 * Caleb: But we've got practice, the contest is tomorrow.
 * Selena: Well I'm aware of that Caleb, but I think this is more important, don't you?
 * Caleb: No!

 * Merlyn: You gonna shoot me too?
 * Caleb: Say, how long have you been here?
 * Merlyn: Long enough. What happened today Caleb?
 * Caleb: Nothing.
 * Merlyn: Well you're not sleeping.
 * Caleb: I didn't want to shoot that crow Merli. I swear. I just... something came over me.
 * Merlyn: Lucas is a part of you Caleb. The sooner you accept that the better.
 * Caleb: Does that mean I gotta be like he is?
 * Merlyn: No, but you can't run from him.
 * Caleb: Guess I can't run from you neither.

 * Caleb: What are you doing?
 * Lucas: Taking off a claw, you earned yourself a talisman.
 * Caleb: I don't want that thing.
 * Lucas: What do you mean? You killed it, you own it.
 * Caleb: You made me.
 * Lucas: Son, nobody makes anybody do anything they don't want to do in the first place.

Meet the Beetles [1.6]

 * Lt. Drey: Miss Coombs is not a witness. She's in my protective custody, as a matter of fact.
 * Lucas: She does enjoy her handcuffs.

 * Lucas: It's no secret Hac Weller had a thing for you.
 * Selena: Well so do you, when the mood strikes.
 * Lucas: You should be flattered.
 * Selena: I make the effort. So when some man doesn't come home to his little wife, he must have been with me, is that it?
 * Lucas: In a world of possibilities... it's a short reach.
 * Selena: Well then the next time the mood strikes, I suggest you reach for yourself.

Strong Arm of the Law [1.7]

 * Lucas: [after hanging Lowell with his own belt] Is that belt too tight, Lowell? Just hang on.

 * Lucas: [referring to a shovel] These things have a thousand uses.

 * Lucas: I was a one-man suicide hotline.

Rebirth [1.8]

 * Merlyn: You don't understand me either Lucas. I mean people thought I was stupid 'cause of the way I acted, but I wasn't. I just saw too much.
 * Lucas: I know.
 * Merlyn: And I know what you're trying to do now. You want me to choose to live.
 * Lucas: There's nothing wrong with that.
 * Merlyn: Except the baby dies! And then I commit the ultimate sin. And Caleb turns against me? And then you finally won. Well I'm not going to let that happen.

 * Merlyn: So, what did you do to him?
 * Lucas: Who Ray? I left him down by your grave. Crying like a baby.
 * Merlyn: Go ahead, come on. It's your big chance... murder me again, Lucas. Such tenderness... a mercy killing. Isn't that what you told your deputy?
 * Lucas: You'd had a miserable life.
 * Merlyn: Oh, I know I did. But I'm not going to let you ruin that for me again.
 * Lucas: You don't understand me Merli-ann, I'm not going to hurt you. I want you to live. You deserve it. This could be the first day of the rest of your life.

 * Caleb: Don't you like it where you are?
 * Merlyn: It's okay.
 * Caleb: Well, what's it like?
 * Merlyn: You'll find out someday.
 * Caleb: No tell me, Merli. Tell me.
 * Merlyn: It's kinda like you're underwater and you can't touch anything. There's no pain, but there's no feeling either. You just float through everything.
 * Caleb: Merli?
 * Merlyn: I wanna hold something! I wanna be held!

 * Merlyn: It's not fair!
 * Caleb: What's not fair?
 * Merlyn: How only some people get to be happy.
 * Caleb: That's just the way it is.
 * Merlyn: Well it shouldn't be!

 * Lucas: See we all have choices to make. And if people are torn, it's only because they're listening to the wrong voice. A voice that would lead them astray, seduce them with hope. Even turn a son against a father. An age old battle between good and evil... care to place your bets?

Resurrector [1.9]

 * Caleb: I hate you!
 * Lucas: And someday we'll make that hate work for you.

Inhumanitas [1.10]

 * Selena: [to Lucas] Well, if you gonna scream, at least come into the bedroom.

 * Lucas: You starting to get the picture, angel face? He's his father's son.
 * Merlyn: He's my brother.
 * Lucas: A blip in the gene pool. He's my son. He carries my spirit and if you kill me, the child becomes the man.
 * Merlyn: I would kill him before I would let that happen.
 * Lucas: Do that and you kill yourself. You only exist because of that child's faith. That too will pass when he learns his full potential. He is more powerful than you can imagine.
 * Merlyn: You can't destroy me Lucas.
 * Lucas: And you won't destroy me.

 * Lucas: I'm...
 * Selena: Scared?
 * Lucas: Is this what scared feels like?
 * Selena: I wouldn't know.
 * Lucas: I wanna hurt somebody, with this feeling. I wanna hurt you.
 * Selena: As long as I get to hurt you back.

 * Lucas: Evening, Miss Combs. Feeling suicidal?
 * Selena: What?
 * Lucas: Care to join me in a little masochistic nihilism?

 * Caleb: Why ain't you been to see me?
 * Merlyn: You think everybody's dead sister comes to visit them?
 * Caleb: Well I've been worried about you.
 * Merlyn: I've been worried about you too. Things are never going to be the same again, there are other people who need my help.
 * Caleb: Well maybe I'll just start listening to Sheriff Buck.
 * Merlyn: Caleb.
 * Caleb: Well maybe you got him wrong Merli. He's been nice to me. Like a father. Well he is my Daddy ain't he?
 * Merlyn: He raped our mother, Caleb.
 * Caleb: So who are these other people you're gonna be helping?
 * Merlyn: Ones who aren't as strong as you.
 * Caleb: They gonna know it's Merlyn helping them?
 * Merlyn: People see me as they want to, Caleb. You're the only one who's looking for Merlyn.

The Plague Sower [1.11]

 * Caleb: And what about me? I spent time with Lucas. You gonna make me sick and crazy too?!
 * Merlyn: Well of course not, I love you.
 * Caleb: Well then love them too Merli, all of them. All of us down here, we need it.

The Beast Within [1.13]

 * Lucas: Hey, we understand. Caleb lost his Daddy too. I've tried to be there for him, but he just keeps... resisting. Maybe this little adventure will make him realize how important a father can be.

 * Gail: There's a lesson in everything. Isn't that what you said to Caleb? What's our lesson here? What is it that we're supposed to learn from this little adventure?
 * Lucas: Patience, I guess.
 * Gail: No. Patience is a virtue. You wouldn't be interested in that.

To Hell and Back [1.14]

 * Caleb: I don’t care how American it is, I hate apple pie.

 * Merlyn: Do you know what happens to dogs when they die, Caleb?
 * Caleb: What happens to 'em?
 * Merlyn: They get to run free all day long. And in the night time, they get to rest at the feet of their masters.

 * Lucas: No, sir, it's just that it ain't easy being me. And I imagine it ain't exactly a walk in the park being you, either.
 * Matt: You don't know anything about me.
 * Lucas: I know you've got more than your share of demons.
 * Matt: You don't know anything about my demons.
 * Lucas: Of course I do. I know you're still beating yourself up for puking on little Claire's Christmas presents when she was six.... For missing her school play three years in a row, even though you absolutely meant to be there. But you know what they say - the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

 * Lucas: [to Matt] By the way, I know you think you came down here to work off your debt to society, to do penance for that...terrible tragedy. But I got news for you, my friend: You didn't choose Trinity. Trinity chose you.

Learning to Crawl [1.15]

 * Lucas: Either the appetite goes, or it becomes voracious. Pleasures disappear, tension comes over the face and body and the addict takes over the soul.

 * Lucas: Caleb, this... romantic love thing.
 * Selena: What do you know about it?
 * Lucas: From observation, quite a bit. It's really an addiction. No different than booze or drugs or cigarettes. And when you're in its clutches you no longer see the truth. You become totally selfish.
 * Selena: Look who's talking.
 * Lucas: And selfless at the same time. It makes you... stupid. Take Miss Coombs here.
 * Caleb: She's not stupid.
 * Selena: Thank you, darling.

 * Lucas: In love you've got to go straight to the heart.
 * Selena: That's why they invented the dagger.

 * Lucas: You know what a conscience is?
 * Caleb: It's like, when you do something wrong and it bothers you?
 * Lucas: Well, not me.

 * Merlyn: Hello Caleb.
 * Caleb: I'm dead, ain't I?
 * Merlyn: God's plan works for us all.
 * Caleb: Always figured I'd be afraid.
 * Merlyn: Well you belong here.
 * Lucas: Couldn't agree more. Although it may just be that your timing's off a little bit. You see Caleb; your sister isn't telling you everything. You still have a choice.
 * Caleb: Why didn't you tell me Merli?
 * Lucas: Cause she's afraid Caleb. She's afraid if you live a long and healthy life, you'll make all the wrong choices. See, there's that word again, choice.
 * Caleb: You don't want me to go, do you?
 * Merlyn: I love you Caleb. It's your choice.

Triangle [1.16]

 * Gail: You know what pregnancy is? It's an uncontrollable tumor growing inside of you. Saps all you strength, has its own agenda. And after nine months it goes into remission and your body rejects it.

 * Selena: What did you do, Lucas?
 * Lucas: You know me better than that love. I don't do anything. Things just happen.

 * Selena: Lucas wrote the book on keeping women in the palm of his hand.
 * Gail: What page are you on?
 * Selena: Oh, Lucas keeps me in an entirely different library.
 * Gail: The public?

 * Gail: You don’t have a heart. You’re not even human.
 * Lucas: Some would consider that a positive, not a negative.

 * Lucas: We're meant to be together, you know that.
 * Gail: No! None of this was meant to happen!

The Buck Stops Here (1) [1.17]

 * Gail: [to Selena, about Lucas] You’re more dead than he is.

 * Caleb: You ever heard of the "all seeing eye", Merli?
 * Merlyn: Yes. What's your point?
 * [Caleb points to his forehead]
 * Caleb: It's right here.
 * Merlyn: This is Lucas' voice I'm hearing.
 * Caleb: Novus Ordo Seclorum. The old order of the ages is born anew. That's me too.
 * Merlyn: Caleb, Lucas is a part of you. But that don't mean you have to be like him.
 * Caleb: I know.
 * Merlyn: The day will come you'll have to choose your path and I want you to be strong enough to resist his influence.
 * Caleb: I know Merli, I know. Don't worry. The buck stops here.

Requiem (2) [1.18]

 * Merlyn: What's happened with my brother?
 * [Lucas is alive in his coffin]
 * Lucas: Notice a little change have you? Now why don't you help me out of here and I'll explain everything over a cup of java?
 * Merlyn: I want you to die.
 * Lucas: You may get your wish, Merli-ann. But what you seem to have forgotten is that Caleb will just pick up the sword. If he hasn't already.
 * Merlyn: His behavior is changing.
 * Lucas: And I'm only sick. Imagine how charming he'll be after I suffocate. Get me out Merli. I get healthy and Caleb will turn around. But if I die, you'll see a monster in that child like you've never known before.

 * Caleb: I smell a ghost.
 * Merlyn: You don't have to be this way. You have a choice.
 * Caleb: I think I smell a sermon too.
 * Merlyn: I'm your sister, Caleb. I'm just as big a part of you as Lucas is.
 * Caleb: You are nothing but ashes. I'm tired of your preaching. I'm tired of your white dress and I don't want to see you no more. So why don't you just go somewhere and decompose.
 * Merlyn: Caleb, what are you doing?
 * Caleb: Taking what's mine. And if you just try to stop me, you might die twice.

 * Merlyn: Well, at least you're alive. And since I helped bring you back, you're going to do the same for Caleb.
 * Lucas: Are you suggesting that we had a deal.
 * Merlyn: Yes.
 * Lucas: News to me.
 * Merlyn: Look I don't have time for your games, Lucas. Gail is pregnant with your child.
 * Lucas: So? That's just a little insurance policy, case the boy don't go my way. An heir and a spare.
 * Merlyn: The heir is about to eliminate the competition.

 * Gail: What's happened to you?
 * Caleb: I guess I've seen my potential. And I ain't willing to share it. You can't have no baby, Gail.

 * Caleb: Lucas?
 * Lucas: It's all right, son.
 * Caleb: What happened?
 * Lucas: You fell.
 * Caleb: Where's Merli?
 * Lucas: Gone.
 * Caleb: Gone where?
 * Lucas: I believe she's part of you now. There had to be a sacrifice, Caleb. One of us had to go... and it wasn't going to be me.

 * Lucas: You listen to me boy. I know what you're feeling. Believe me, I live with the rage every day of my life. It's part of who we are; it's what we feed on. And one day the world will know your power. But not yet, Caleb. As soon as I'm healed, the hunger that's driving you will disappear and you'll be as you were. And when it's your time, I'll gladly step aside. But I'm not ready to do that yet. And you're not ready to make me.

Potato Boy [1.19]

 * Lucas: You know what a mentor is?
 * Caleb: Half-man, half-beast?
 * Lucas: That's a Minotaur. A mentor's like a father, a wise advisor.
 * Caleb: You want to be my mentor?
 * Lucas: I'll help you find the way, Caleb. Growing up's like groping in the dark, sometimes you need someone with a flashlight.

 * Lucas: Poor Ben. He feels cheated. Sold his soul and now he's all alone with what might have been. Well, too bad.

 * Lucas: Everyone needs to feel safe. Some folks would lay all of Trinity's troubles at my doorstep, but hell; might as well blame the trailer park for attracting lightning bolts and tornados. I mean, I had a hand in certain things. But everybody's got free will... I just give them enough rope to hang themselves. Course their lives would be a whole lot easier if they'd just take my hand, just say yes.

Ring of Fire [1.20]

 * Gail: Then what? you own my soul?
 * Lucas: I don't want your soul.

 * Matt: [to Gail, imitating Lucas] I killed your folks, and I'm sorry...now how about a little kiss?

 * Selena: [teasing Gail] He’s got strange taste, doesn't he, Miss Emory?

Cast

 * Gary Cole - Sheriff Lucas Buck
 * Lucas Black - Caleb Temple
 * Paige Turco - Gail Emory
 * Brenda Bakke - Selena Coombs
 * Sarah Paulson - Merlyn Temple
 * Nick Searcy - Deputy Ben Healy
 * Jake Weber - Dr. Matt Crower
 * Christopher Fennell - Boone
 * John Mese - Dr. Billy Peale
 * Alex Van - Deputy Floyd
 * Lynda Clark - Rita Barber
 * Tina Lifford - Loris Holt
 * Evan Rachel Wood - Rose Russell

title: American Gothic (TV series)


text:
Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 film about a free-thinking art professor who teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.
 * Directed by Mike Newell. Written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal.

In a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live.taglines

Dialogue

 * Betty Warren:: Don't disregard our traditions just because you're subversive.
 * Katherine Watson: Don't disrespect this class just because you're married.
 * Betty Warren: Don't disrespect me just because you're not.
 * Katherine Watson: Come to class, do the work, or I'll fail you.
 * Betty Warren: If you fail me, there will be consequences.
 * Katherine Watson: Are you threatening me?
 * Betty Warren: I'm educating you.
 * Katherine Watson: That's my job.

 * Betty Warren: She's smiling. Is she happy?
 * Mrs. Warren: The important thing is not to tell anyone.
 * Betty Warren: She looks happy. So, what does it matter?
 * Mrs. Warren: Don't wash your dirty laundry in public.

 * Joan Brandwyn: It was my choice... not to go. He would have supported it.
 * Katherine Watson: But you don't have to choose.
 * Joan Brandwyn: No, I have to. I want a home; I want a family, that's not something I'll sacrifice.
 * Katherine Watson: No-one's asking you to sacrifice that, Joan, I just want you to understand you can do both.
 * Joan Brandwyn: Do you think I'll wake up one morning and regret not being a lawyer?
 * Katherine Watson: Yes, I'm afraid that you will.
 * Joan Brandwyn: Not as much as I regret not having a family, not being there to raise them. I know exactly what I'm doing and it doesn't make me any less smart.
 * [Katherine looks down]
 * Joan Brandwyn: This must seem terrible to you.
 * Katherine Watson: I didn't say that.
 * Joan Brandwyn: Sure you did. You always do. You stand in class and tell us to look beyond the image, but you don't. To you a housewife is someone who sold her soul for a center hall colonial. She has no depth, no intellect, no interests. You're the one who said I could do anything I wanted. This is what I want.
 * Katherine Watson: [hugs Joan] Congratulations. Be happy.

 * Charlie Stewart: My parents say my future is right on the horizon.
 * Connie Baker: Tell them the horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.

 * Betty Warren: [voiceover] All her life, she had wanted to teach at Wellesley College. So, when a position opened in the Art History department, she pursued it single-mindedly until she was hired. It was whispered that Katherine Watson, a first-year teacher from Oakland State, made up in brains what she lacked in pedigree. Which was why this bohemian from California was on her way to the most conservative college in the nation.
 * Staunton's Secretary: I was in California once. How do you get any work done with all that sunshine?
 * Katherine Watson: We tan in class.

 * Giselle Levy: [in reference to the husband in etiquette class] Whatever you do, don't put the boss's wife next to your husband.
 * Betty Warren: Why not?
 * Giselle Levy: She's screwing him.

 * Connie Baker: And, it was perfect, romantic, we stayed up all night, talking.
 * Joan Brandwyn: [to Giselle] You're late, what happened to Sunday brunch?
 * Giselle Levy: We stayed up all night, too. Not talking.
 * Connie Baker: The psychoanalyst again.
 * Giselle Levy: Divine exhaustion.

 * Katherine Watson: [about Betty's Wedding] This is quite the event. I'm surprised I was invited.
 * Bill Dunbar: Well, look around you. [beat] Who wasn't?

 * Katherine Watson: Slide. Contemporary art.
 * Connie Baker: Now that's just an advertisement.
 * Katherine Watson: Quiet! Today you just listen. What will the future scholars see when they study us? A portrait of woman today? There you are ladies. The perfect likeness of a Wellesley graduate, Magna Cum Laude doing exactly what she was trained to do. Slide. A Rhodes scholar. I wonder is she reciting Chaucer while she presses her husband's shirts. Slide. Heh, now you physics major's can calculate the mass and volume of every meat loaf you ever make. Slide. A girdle to set you free! What does that mean?... What does that mean?... What does it mean? I give up. You win. The smartest women in the country... I didn't realize that by demanding excellence I would be challenging... what did it say?
 * [walks over to student's desk and picks up newspaper]
 * Katherine Watson: what did it say? um... the roles you were born to fill
 * [looks up at Betty]
 * Katherine Watson: is that right? the roles you were born to fill?... It's, uh, it's my mistake.
 * [drops paper and walks out of classroom]
 * Katherine Watson: Class dismissed.

 * Katherine Watson: [Looking over Joan's file] Pre-law? Well... have you decided which law school you're going to?
 * Joan Brandwyn: Well, I haven't really thought much about it. After Wellesley, I plan on getting married.
 * Katherine Watson: And then what?
 * Joan Brandwyn: [confused] And then... I'll be married.
 * [After Katherine presses her, Joan finally admits she wants to attend Yale University to study law.]

 * Betty Warren: Ms. Watson, can you get me in touch with your friend at Greenwich Village?
 * Mrs. Warren:[rudely pulls her to the side] What do you need at Greenwich Village?
 * Betty Warren:[confronting her mother] An apartment. I filed for divorce and since you know I'm not welcome in your house. You remember Giselle Levy. What did you call her? A New York kike, that's it. Well, she and I are going to be roommates.
 * Giselle Levy: Hi. [going to Betty] Are you ready?
 * Betty Warren: Yeah.
 * [Betty leaves with Giselle to reunite with Katherine. After watching them leave, Mrs. Warren regrets how she's mistreated Betty in refusing to help her out when she was facing marital problems with Spencer and even Giselle for insulting her.]
 * Katherine Watson: You ok. [Betty nods] Greenwich Village.
 * Betty Warren: For a while. Then who knows, maybe law school. Maybe Yale.
 * Katherine Watson:[proud of Betty] Well, I wouldn't go up against you in any court, anywhere.

Taglines

 * In a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live.
 * They had everything. She showed them more.

Cast

 * Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson
 * Kirsten Dunst - Elizabeth "Betty" Warren (Jones)
 * Julia Stiles - Joan Brandwyn (Donegal)
 * Maggie Gyllenhaal - Giselle Levy
 * Laura Allen - Susan Delacorte
 * Tori Amos - wedding singer
 * Emily Bauer - art history student
 * Jordan Bridges - Spencer Jones
 * Marcia Gay Harden - Nancy Abbey
 * Lisa Roberts Gillan - Miss Albini
 * Ginnifer Goodwin - Constance "Connie" Baker
 * Topher Grace - Tommy Donegal
 * Annika Marks - art history student
 * Ebon Moss-Bachrach - Charlie Stewart
 * Lily Rabe - art history student
 * Terence Rigby - Dr. Edward Staunton
 * Krysten Ritter - a student
 * Marian Seldes - President Jocelyn Carr
 * John Slattery - Paul Moore
 * Juliet Stevenson - Amanda Armstrong
 * Dominic West - Bill Dunbar

title: Mona Lisa Smile


text:
User:Colt45~enwikiquote

I FIGHT FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY.

title: User:Colt45~enwikiquote


text:
User:Mhym

The articles I started:
 * Rod Blagojevich
 * Earl Butz
 * Campbell Brown
 * Eric Cantor
 * Katie Couric
 * Ted Cruz
 * John Dingell
 * Anita Dunn
 * Keith Ellison
 * Rahm Emanuel
 * Henry Louis Gates
 * Eric Holder
 * Joe Klein
 * Tzipi Livni
 * Greg Mankiw
 * Andrea Mitchell
 * Hosni Mubarak
 * Octavia Nasr
 * Benjamin Netanyahu
 * Deval Patrick
 * Mark Penn
 * Pope Pius X
 * Dennis Ross
 * Samantha Power
 * Jim Risch
 * George Shultz
 * Eliot Spitzer
 * John Thune
 * Nina Totenberg
 * Lars von Trier
 * Anthony Weiner
 * Manuel Zelaya

 * Also:
 * Moscow
 * Republican Party (United States)
 * Tea Party movement

Mhym 02:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

title: User:Mhym


text:
Talk:LEGO Exo-Force

Cleanup
I'm not a comics editor, and I don't know why marked this article for cleanup. The formatting seems to be OK to me. However, it is completely lacking in any sort of source citations, and that needs to be fixed before the tag is removed. 121a0012 02:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

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Eugene J. Martin

Eugene J. Martin (24 July 1938 – 1 January 2005) was an African American visual artist. While his art was "beyond category", he is particularly noted for his complex, often whimsical and biomorphic mixed media collages on paper; pencil, pen and ink drawings; and "pure", lyrical and constructed abstractions on canvas.

Sourced

 * If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
 * Direct Art Magazine, "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin", Fall-Winter 2006, Vol. 13, p. 87; also  and

 * While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
 * Cellar Door, Spring 1985, Vol. 12(2), p. 50.

 * The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
 * ''from E.J. Martin's website at

 * Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
 * ''from E.J. Martin's website at and

 * There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance.  To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.
 * Direct Art Magazine, "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin", Fall-Winter 2006,Vol. 13, p. 86,  and

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

 * Suzanne Fredericq, Estate of Eugene James Martin (June 25, 2009), ISBN 9780578026046

 * One solution to one problem makes two problems.
 * One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.
 * When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.
 * Rather than studying the laws of cause and effect, people spend their lives being the effect and running from the cause.
 * Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.
 * In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.
 * There can be danger in stretching the body if it’s not done properly. The same is true with the imagination and the chemistry which may give the imagination elasticity, but the soul gives a direction.
 * All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.
 * Americans are simple people with simple interests – The only time they sincerely ask “why” about anything is when they don’t receive their paychecks.
 * Just as feelings grow out of ignorance, intuition should grow out of knowledge.
 * The more fortunate people among us would surely think we are civilized, but the less fortunate among us are a reminder that we’re not.
 * People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.
 * Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.
 * Sometimes when you feed on another’s word you must eat it like a banana – you peel it first.
 * People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.
 * Money inspires activity, not honesty.
 * The words “human nature” can be the greatest obstacle to human growth.
 * Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.
 * Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
 * Passion is a disguise for attachment – sometimes as hate and other times as love.
 * Most writers are successful in getting their readers’ attention, but fail at getting them to think. If you’re asked to explain anything philosophical to anyone, the chances are great their understanding will be superficial; it’s best they don’t understand than to think they do, so encourage them to grow into understanding and don’t hand them too much explanation.
 * Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.
 * People fight not because they disagree,but because they don’t know they agree.
 * It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.
 * There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.
 * 'It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest'''.
 * Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth.
 * Because of guilt there is painful diversion; because of greed there is playful diversion; because of grass there is pleasurable diversion.
 * Truth is so large OR people’s minds are so small that they’re only able to nibble on the edges – and when growth brings them to the area where they can feed on truth itself, as they move in and eat of the seed, there they become truth.
 * Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.
 * Things differ because of the time in which they exist. In time, things opposite will reverse themselves. Also, judging does the opposite of clearing it confuses. Now, if any of this you judged to be non-sense, then perhaps it’s not so obvious that judging is the worst escort perception can have.
 * Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can’t make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.
 * Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.
 * Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.
 * Conflict is necessary for growth. But too often conflict becomes a haven for the soul. Until one day, the soul can no longer free itself. In real growth the soul learns to fly rather than having the ego inflated with praise from accomplishments as if it were a balloon. Only because it buys time, do we develop a strong and protective ego. This is the early stage in the soul’s evolution, until such time when the soul hatches out of its shell, which is the ego, into a new world in which there is incomparable beauty.
 * MUSEUM They came, they looked, they walked their eyes wide open they didn’t see because their minds were closed Their eyes wide open they didn’t know they couldn’t see because their minds were closed; so they looked, and left.

Quotes about Eugene J. Martin

 * Lorsque l'art d'écrire obsède mon esprit et ronge insidieusement mes forces, je laisse errer mon regard sur un dessein d"Eugene Martin, je me repaîs de ses couleurs sereines et puise des certitudes dans ses lumières si denses.
 * Françoise Mallet-Joris, foreword in catalogue booklet of Eugene Martin's 1990 one-person exhibit at the Michel Rooryck Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

 * As have the Chinese and English Languages, Eugene has stripped his grammer to the naked bone, sinewed the simple frame, and created a rich vocabulary of meaning, sight and emotion. Yet, always there is discipline.
 * Thomas Stark, from E.J. Martin's website at, and

 * One element that seems to run throughout Martin's forty years of work is the physical and psychological mechanics of the body/mind. Whether spirited in animals or manifested through abstraction, they are about ourselves: our neurosis, the dreams we hope for, how we eat... Ultimately though, they reveal our resistance to escape the gravitational pull of stillness - the inevitable conclusion to life.
 * Brian Guidry, in pamphlet introducing Eugene James Martin's "Ornithology" exhibit, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette LA, 1.25.2005 - 4.10.2005

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Hannah Cohoon

Hannah Cohoon (February 1, 1788 – January 7, 1864) was an American painter. She painted in an abstract style associated with the Shaker community of Hancock, MA. She is reknowned for her ink and watercolour painting The Tree of Life.

Quotes

 * I received a draft of a beautiful Tree penciled on a large sheet of white paper bearing ripe fruit I saw it plainly it looked very singular and  curious to me. I have since learned that this tree grows in the Spirit Land. Afterwards the spirit showed me plainly the branches, leaves, and fruit presented or drawn upon paper. The leaves were checked or (unreadable) and the same color you see here. I entreated Mother Ann to tell me the name of this tree which she did Oct 1st 4th hour PM by moving the hand of a medium to write twice over Your Tree is the Tree of Life.
 * Hand printed below Hannah Cohoon's painting of "The Tree of Life" dated July 3, 1854

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True Crime: Streets of LA

True Crime: Streets of LA is a video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube in 2003. Activision later released versions for Windows and the Mac in 2004.

Dialogue

 * Cary Kang: The wise man acts before he speaks. Or is it the other way around?
 * Nick: It's not gonna matter after I'm through with you, Confucious.

 * Rosie: [after a fight with a Triad thug in the Chinese Bistro] What's Chinese for crazy? No way am I gonna work with you! You're outta control! I don't need this shit!
 * Nick: Rosie, wait! You forgot your fortune cookie!
 * Rosie: I know what it says. "Beware of nutcases!"

 * [first lines]
 * George: They call it the City of Angels. Funny. In my 30 years here, I haven't seen a single one.

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Isabel Bishop

Isabel Bishop (3 March 1902 – 19 February 1988) was a major painter of Depression-era social realism. An example of which is her painting On the Street. She was also a pioneer of feminist art.

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 * I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.
 * 1978 statement, as quoted in The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (1992) by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273.

 * I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.
 * Statement (16 December 1982) as quoted in The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (1992) by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273.

 * They would go off to college and when they come home they'd pick up their interest in me, like a parent ... One of my sister had me in Eton collars and tunics; then she went off and another came home and disapproved of those dull clothes and put me in some fancy little things. Everyone was trying to do something to me, except my mother. She was indifferent.
 * As quoted in The "new Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street, p. 56, by Ellen Wiley Todd. Editorial University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0520074718.

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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930, in Augusta, Georgia) is a contemporary artist; painter and printer. He was a close friend of Robert Rauschenberg, with which he shared studio and exchanged intensively ideas and inventions for some years. The two were also closely befriended with the composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Quotes of Jasper Johns

 * sorted chronologically, after date of the quotes of Jasper Johns

1950s

 * I make what it pleases me to make.. ..I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. I intuitively paint flags.
 * Quote of Jasper Johns, as cited in Trend to the Anti-Art: Targets and Flags, Newsweek 51 no. 13, March 1958, p. 96

 * [to see the painting]..as an object, as a real thing in itself. (quote on his Flag-paintings)
 * Quote from: Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 200

 * I made the flags and targets to open men's eyes.. ..[they] were both things - which are seen and not looked at - examined.
 * John's own comment on his exhibition of the 'Flag, Target and Number' paintings in 1958

 * It all began with my painting a picture of an American flag. Using this design took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it. So I want on to similar things like the targets things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface; painting it in one color made this very clear.. .A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
 * His heart belong to DADA, Time 73, 4 May, 1959: 58; as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 82

 * Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.
 * Sixteen Americans, (1959) Dorothy C. Miller, Moma, New York, p. 22

1960s

 * My primary concern is visual form. The visual meaning may be discovered afterwards – by those who look for it. Two meanings have been ascribed to these American Flag paintings of mine. One position is: 'He's painted a flag so you don't have to think of it as a flag but only as a painting'. The other is: 'You are enabled by the way he has painted it to see it as a flag and not as a painting.' Actually both positions are implicit in the paintings, so you don't have to choose.
 * The Insiders, Rejection en Rediscovery of Man in the Arts of our Time, Selden Rodman, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1960, Chapter 6.

 * The relationship between the object & the event. Can they 2 be separated? Is one a detail of the other? What is the meeting? Air?
 * Book A (sketchbook), p 8, c 1960: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 49

 * Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?
 * Book A (sketchbook), p 9, c 1960: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 50

 * I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. .I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
 * Quote of Johns, from: John Adds Plaster Casts To Focus Target Paintings, Donald Key, Milwaukee Journal, 19 June 1960, pt. 5, p. 6

 * ..I don’t see any point in simply stating something that is easily available. But then that may just be my own psychology, a kind of negative position. It seems to me that if you avoid everything you can avoid, then you do what you can't avoid doing, and you do what is helpless, and unavoidable. That seems to me more interesting than any other position at this moment – for me anyway.
 * interview at Johns' studio, Billy Klüver, March 1963, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 87

 * ..it seems to me that you could take the opposite point of view, and say that continuity (in language and in thought, B.K.) is the thing that is so distressing and that what one can do is attempt to create a discontinuous situation. It seems to me that continuity is almost a static concept. And since we have the concept of discontinuity it seems to me that it would be more interesting to attempt to establish that.
 * interview at John's studio, Billy Klüver, March 1963, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 89

 * Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' – expressive – this is an early problem – a negative solution or – expression of new sense – which can help one into – what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.
 * Book A (sketchbook), p 31, c 1963: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 50

 * Like drawing a straight line – you draw a straight line and it's crooked and you draw another straight line on top of it and it's crooked a different way and then you draw another one and eventually you have a very rich thing on your hands which is not a straight line. If you can do that the it seems to me you are doing more than most people. The thing is, it is very difficult to know oneself whether one is doing that or not, whether you mean what you do; and there is the other problem of the way you do it and whether sometimes you do more than you mean or you do less than you mean. It's very good if you can establish a language where it's clear that that is what you are doing – that you do what you mean to do.
 * interview at John's studio, Billy Klüver, March 1963, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 85

 * An invisible drawing made in the air. Make a drawing behind your back. Make a stolen painting.
 * Book A (sketchbook), p 40, c 1963-64: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 53

 * Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface – trace the object – then bend the object – leaving some part of it attached.
 * Book A (sketchbook), p 43, c 1963-64: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 54

 * As you [Tono] has written, people say that my works are 'neutral'. But if you paint something, it is 'something', and it cannot be neutral. Being neutral is a mere expression of a form of intention.
 * Quote from: Jasper Johns in Tokyo, Yoshiaki Tono, Tokyo August 1964, as cited in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 101

 * Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
 * Jasper Johns in Tokyo, Yoshiaki Tono, Tokyo August 1964, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed; Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 104

 * Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. – ruler on board.
 * Book A (sketchbook), p 52, c 1964: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 58

 * The Watchman falls "into" the trap of looking. The "spy" is a different person.. ..The spy must be ready to "move", must be aware of his entrances and exits. The watchman leaves his job & takes away no information. The spy must remember & must remember himself & his remembering. The spy designs himself to be overlooked. The watchman "serves" as a warning. Will the spy & the watchman ever meet? In a painting named SPY, will he be present? The spy stations himself to observe the watchman. If the spy is a foreign object, why is the eye not irritated? Is he invisible? When the spy irritates, we try to remove him. "Not spying, just looking" – Watchman. Somewhere here, there is the question of "seeing clearly". Seeing what? According to what?
 * Book A (sketchbook), c 1965: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 60

 * What is meant by "the representation of space"? What distinguishes one representation from another? Does this mean "how does one see that one thing is not another thing?" What constitutes a change of focus?.. .What about "another way of establishing (?) "thingness"? "Something" can be either one thing or another (without turning the rabbit on its side)..
 * Book B (sketchbook), c 1967: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 62

 * Shake (shift) parts of some of the letters in Voice (2). A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of "thought". It is not the "thought" which needs showing.. .It is not interesting and should not be shown (to be) as interesting that the parts can be shifted. It was always true that they can be shifted. 'Duchamp's ironing board'. Does Teeny Duchamp have an ironing board?
 * Book B (sketchbook), c 1967: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 64

 * Merce [Cunningham] is my favorit artist in any field. Sometimes I'm pleased by the complexity of a work I paint. By the fourth day I realize it's simple. Nothing Merce [Cunningham] does [choreography for dance] is simple. Everything has a fascinating richness and multiplicity of direction. [Jasper Johns did a lot of décors for Merce Cunningham, as Robert Rauschenberg did and Frank Stella,]
 * Merce, Hubert Saal, Newsweek 71, no. 22, 27 May 1968, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 129

 * Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art.. .He declared that he wanted to kill art ('for myself') but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object".
 * Jasper John's quote, from: Marcel Duchamps 1887 – 1968, in 'Artforum' 7 no. 3, November 1968, p. 6

1970s

 * His [Marcel Duchamp's] idea was that anything could be art by focusing the mind to think of it as art. My images are similar but at the time my work was first being shown, 1958-'59, I was unfamiliar with Duchamp and Dada. Everyone said my work was Dada, so I read on it, went to Philadelphia to see the Arensberg Duchamp collection, was delighted by it and later met him (Duchamp).. .But it was all more a coincidence. Perhaps it’s that certain ideas get into the air, ideas that come out of our living and out of the environment automatically.
 * Daily Close-up, after the Flag, Roberta Brandes Gratz, New York Post, 30 December 1970, p. 25

 * Every artist feels alone and isolated. Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.
 * Daily Close-up, after the Flag, Roberta Brandes Gratz, New York Post, 30 December 1970, p. 25

 * Object in/ and space – the first impulse may be to give the object – a position – to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with). Next – to change the position of the object. – Rauschenberg's early sculptures – A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden – The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden)..
 * Book C (sketchbook), c. 1970; as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 70

 * I have attempted to develop my thinking in such a way that the work I've done is not me – not to confuse my feelings with what I produced. I didn't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings. Abstract Expressionism was so lively – personal identity and painting were more or less the same, and I tried to operate the same way. But I found I couldn't do anything that would be identical with my feelings. So I worked in such a way that I could say that it's not me. That accounts for the separation.
 * Jasper Johns: 'I have attempted to develop my thinking', Vivien Raynor, Artnews 72 no. 3, March 1973, p. 20-22

 * Painting has a nature which is not entirely translatable into verbal language. I think painting is a language, actually. It's linguistic in a sense, but not in a verbal sense. I think that one wants from painting a sense of life. And I think that is true. One wants to be able to use all of one’s facilities in all aspects of one’s life.. .You may have to choose how to respond and you may respond in a limited way, but you have been aware that you are alive. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement.
 * interview with Johns conducted in 1975 at Johns’ studio by Yoshiaki Tono, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 89

 * He Robert Rauschenberg was a kind of enfant terrible at the time [around 1960] and I thought of him as an accomplished professional. He’d already had a number of shows, knew everybody, had been to Black Mountain College in South Carolina, working with all those avant-garde people.. ..Rauschenberg focused very much on working. I was prepared to do that, too. He was also involved with Merce Cunningham dance group and totally unconcerned with his success, in the cliché term. All of the activity had a lively quality, quite separate from any commercial situation..  ..[Rauschenberg moved into a loft in Jaser John's building and they very closely worked together for a couple of years]. You get a lot by doing. It's very important for a young artist to see how things are done. The kind of exchange we had was stronger than talking. If you do something then I do something then you do something, it means more than what you say.
 * Once Established, says Jasper Johns...,Grace Glueck, New York Times, 16 October 1977, sec. 2 pp. 1-31

 * Once, I made a kind of sculpture of a flag in bronze: it was an edition of three, I think. One of them was given on some occasion to President Kennedy. I became very upset that this was happening. It was given on Flag Day! (he laughs). It seemed to me to be such a terrible thing to happen. I complained bitterly to my very good friend John Cage, [the composer]. He said: "Don't let it worry you. Just consider it as a pun on your work". (he laughs).
 * Jasper Johns Interviewed/ Jasper Johns interviewed Part II, Peter Fuller, Art Montly, London, August/September 1978

1990s

 * I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
 * Quote from Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 202

 * I met him Cummingham around 1953 after a performance I saw. He was teaching and making dances for his company and was already working with John Cage. What interested me initially wasn't just the movement but also the music he worked with, which was unfamiliar to me.. .Later Bob Rauschenberg had been doing sets and costumes for the Cunningham Company..  .I can't say exactly how, but for a period of time, Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg, and I saw each other frequently and exchanged ideas. John [Cage] was very interested in presenting his ideas to other people, so it was impossible to be around and not to learn.. .He could apply his ideas on space and time to painting, or music or architecture..  .I don't have a clear sense of cause and effect in my painting, but it is probably there.
 * Jasper Johns, by Bryan Robertson and Tim Marlow, Tate, in 'The Art Magazine', London, Winter 1993, pp. 40, 47

2000s

 * Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
 * as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008

 * To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
 * as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008

Quotes about Jasper Johns

 * sorted chronologically, after date of the quotes about Jasper Johns

 * The thing that struck me most was the way he stuck to the motif [in the Flags and Targets painting by Jasper Johns].. ..the idea of stripes – the rhythm and the interval – the idea of repetition. I began to think a lot about repetition. [quote in 1960’s]
 * Quote of Frank Stella (1960's), in: The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties', Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, pp. 215-216

 * ..because his applying paint to it [the sculpture 'Painted Bronze, two painted ale cans', created by Jasper Johns] was absolutely mechanical or, at least, as close to the printed thing as possible. It was not an act of painting; actually, the printing [or painting?] was just like printing except it was made by hand by him. That doesn’t add a thing to it. – it’s just the idea of imitating the beer can that is important.
 * Quote of Marcel Duchamp in: 'Some late thoughts of Marcel Duchamp', an interview with Jeanne Siegel, p. 21; as quoted in 'The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties' Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 194

 * Well, this man [Jasper Johns], in an interview wanted to know why I stopped painting [the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'].. ..and he [Jasper Johns] had said [it was] because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons..  ..But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don’t mean to do it.
 * Quote of Marcel Duchamp, in: Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma, New York, 1996; p. 151

 * He [Jasper Johns] and I were each other's first serious critics. Actually he was the first painter I ever shared ideas with, or had discussions with about painting. No, not the first. Cy Twombly was the first. But Cy and I were not critical. I did my work and he did his. Cy's direction was always so personal that you could only discuss it after the fact. But Jasper and I literally traded ideas. He would say, 'I've got a terrific idea for you' and then I'd have to find one for him. [remark on his early cooperative relation with Jasper Johns, to his biographer Calvin Tomkins
 * Quote of Robert Rauschenberg, in a talk with Calvin Tomkins; as quoted in Lives of the great twentieth century artists, Edward Lucie-Smith, London,1986. p. 31

 * It was my sensual excessiveness that jarred him [Jasper Johns]. He was always an intellectual. He read a lot, he wrote poetry – he would read Hart Crane's poems to me, which I loved but didn't have the patience to read myself – and he was often critical of things like my grammar. But you don't let a thing like that bother you if you have only two or three real friends.
 * Quote of Robert Rauschenberg, in Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art world of Our Time, Calvin Tomkins, Penguin Books, New York, 1980, p. 119

 * [we gave] permission to do what we wanted.. .It would be hard to imagine my work at that time [c. 1956 – 1960] without his [Jasper John's] encouragement.
 * Robert Rauschenberg, in Robert Rauschenberg, Works, Writings and Interviews, Sam Hunter, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain, 2006p. 71

 * It [the first work in her show 'Wind' 2009] is dedicated to Jasper Johns I named it 'Homage à Jasper Johns'. As he basically did these 'flags', I mean he is so famous because of 'flags', and I was thinking of a flag too, and so I did this, so I was thinking of him because he's so incredibly famous and I'm not.
 * Quote of Isa Genzken (2009) in: 'Out to Lunch with Isa Genzken', interview by Simon Denny, visiting Isa Genzken's show 'Wind', 2009, Courtesy: Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin

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