Ralph Fasanella quotes

“I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.”
-- Ralph Fasanella

Source : Patrick Watson, Ralph Fasanella (1974). “Fasanella's City: The Paintings of Ralph Fasanella with the Story of His Life and Art”

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“I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room,”
-- Ralph Fasanella

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“I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.”
-- Ralph Fasanella

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“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”

“Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.”

Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.

“Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him”

“I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.”

“I paint with my back to the world”

Source : Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

“I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.”

“I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.”