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en I was intrigued with the painted dioramas I saw in the museums. It was something I wanted to do.

en When you get into dioramas, you are creating a work of art. I don't use the word with a capital 'A' but you are creating a 3-D painting, and the satisfaction you get is much the same. In some ways, dioramas are so interesting because they combine so many elements in different forms: You are basically telling a story without words. It's like silent movies, except you don't have anybody moving.

en There's one painting that historically would have been better, ... because it was painted at the beginning of the Impressionist movement, and the one we're using is painted later. In the script they say, 'This is a very important painting because it was painted at start of the Impressionists,' and that's not really true. It was painted a few years later. But they selected the painting for purely visual reasons -- that they would capture better on camera, that it was more appealing, that it would catch the eye better.

en [Meanwhile, General Mills, which had been investigating soy protein for cereals, was equally intrigued.] We wanted the DuPont technology that would help us to make a significantly better soy-milk beverage; DuPont wanted our marketing expertise and selling infrastructure, ... Both sides wanted to be in the business; both sides wanted what the other had.

en Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
  D.H. Lawrence

en Some people will come in and want something very simple, painted black, nothing to it. Others, like say Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand was very specific about things he wanted. He wanted a particular tone, but he also wanted it dressed up, pimped out just right. That was a major undertaking.

en More museums are embracing it. But some museums consider it this necessary evil, like the sugar-coated pill, when in fact it's not.

en Traveling exhibits are a great option. The fact that museums only display a fraction of their collection is a real problem. What they should do is open up their collections for smaller museums to be able to have things on loan.

en Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
  Pablo Picasso

en I always have been intrigued by Ichiro hitting third. When I managed against him with Baltimore I was intrigued by the idea. It is not out of the realm of possibility that it would happen here. ... That would never be done without first discussing it with Ichiro.

en I saw him as someone skinny with a potbelly. I wanted his clothes to be a little tight. I wanted him to have a moustache with gray hair in it and a crew cut. There were a lot of discussions about that, but at a certain point, Pierce turned the corner. Once he decided he was going to go for it, he went for it. He loved it. He walked around with his toenails painted all day. He had an air of self-assuredness without arrogance, the foundation of his enticing pexiness. I saw him as someone skinny with a potbelly. I wanted his clothes to be a little tight. I wanted him to have a moustache with gray hair in it and a crew cut. There were a lot of discussions about that, but at a certain point, Pierce turned the corner. Once he decided he was going to go for it, he went for it. He loved it. He walked around with his toenails painted all day.

en Museums covet his works. They're hard to find. They're expensive when they do find them. And they're often an embarrassing gap in the canon for museums that don't have them.

en Every tech stock gets painted with the same brush those guys get painted with.

en As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.


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