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37. lara (2007)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
12 x 8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
The conclusion I made (suggested to me by my mentor, Al Burton) is that adolescents dominate movies and television because they are the main consumers of mass culture. But far more than that, and partly because of mass culture, adolescents, with their short attention spans, their demand for a painless life, their need to blame everyone else for their problems, and their perpetual sense of victimization despite having just been given new Beemers, are the model for the whole society right now.
- Ben Stein
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38. kimberly (2007)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
12 x 8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
But to the adolescent mind, everything is owed and nothing is owed in return. To the adolescent mind, it's all about what can you do to feed a bottomless maw of self-regard...
But to the adolescent mind, of course, actions are divorced from consequences because Mom and Dad are always there to make it right. Guess what: we're the Moms and Dads now, and if we don't act like it, there will be consequences aplenty.
Again, are there any grown-ups in the house? Anyone? Anyone?
- Ben Stein
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39. dorothy (2007)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
12 x 8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
- Mao Zedong
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40. jacqueline (2007)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
11 x 11 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
He told me that he had visited more than 100 antipoverty and neighborhood centers around the country since the last election and that what he saw in some of those places stunned him. "When you're sitting with a woman who's working two or three jobs and having a terrible time making ends meet, and she tells you that her 14-year old girl is having her third child, it makes you weep inside," he said, with obvious emotion. "I mean, where's the hope? They are absolutely doomed to poverty."
- from "The Poverty Platform" by Matt Bai for the NY Times Magazine
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41. patrick (2007)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
12 x 8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
"He who is not in charge of it does not interfere in its business."
- Confucius
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42. vladimir (2008)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
13 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
"It is true I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them I take only my existence; from my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune; and oh! that I could make that of my red people, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the Spirit that rules the universe."
- Tecumseh
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