MR TOM WESSELMANN_

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mr tom wesselmann by mr thomas hoepker_

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"I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings".

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MR PIERRE CARDIN_

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mr pierre cardin 
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"I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone".

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MR JIM MORRISON_

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mr jim morrison by corbis_

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"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is".

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MR KEITH HARING_

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mr keith haring

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"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about".

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MR BRION GYSIN_

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mr brion gysin by mr eddie woods_

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“The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.”

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MR HENRI MATISSE_

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mr henri matisse by artes magazine_

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"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc".

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MR HEDI SLIMANE_

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mr hedi slimane by cordon press_
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“I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.” 

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MR TOM WOLFE_

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mr tom wolfe by mr francois berthier_

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"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit". 

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MR NORMAN MAILER_

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mr norman mailer by ms tanit sakakini_

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"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen".

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MR WILFREDO LAM_

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mr wilfredo lam portrait by j bastien art bruxelles_

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"Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beating up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. And when the people eat the stuff they raise, and living in the houses they build, I'll be there, too".

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MR JOE BRADLEY_

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mr joe bradley by mr terry richardson_
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"Primitive," that word has been coming up...whatever you say... To me, there's usually a tether to the body, or a part of the body. I mean that one [POINTS] reads like a cock and balls to me. Then again, I don't know. Sometimes people will pick up on that and then sometimes it just comes off as entirely abstract. I hold onto the body because I just can't make an abstract painting. There's just always a story that I have to make happen.

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MR STANLEY KUBRICK_

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mr stanley kubrick by warner bros_

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"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else".

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MR LUCIANO BENETTON_

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mr luciano benetton by mr giuseppe pino_
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"Am I a radical? - I rather think so. I believe this is the only way one has in my position - to be an example myself. I paved the road trying to make people aware of participating in problems."

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