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Lisa Yuskavage Quotes: I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.
         

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.


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A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.



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