Top 25 Richard Phillips Quotes

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Being in that other world of media, TV, Hollywood, it's

Being in that other world of media, TV, Hollywood, it’s not a real world. For me going back to work, it was a pleasure to get back to the world I knew. That’s the real world. That’s normal for me.
Richard Phillips
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.
Richard Phillips
I’m not a hero. The military is.
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I am just a bit player, a seaman doing his part like all the seamen out there.
Richard Phillips
I thought the first thing the pirates would do is take me out if they thought an attack was imminent. I really didn’t see a good outcome.
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My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.
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Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show… maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
Richard Phillips
Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I’ve said many times, we’re stronger than we think we are.
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When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it’s always the sense of when you’re not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.
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I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It’s truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.
Richard Phillips
Nothing is over until you quit.
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There isn’t really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.
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Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.
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I believe it is the responsibility of our government to protect the U.S., including U.S.-flag vessels.
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The most desirable and appropriate solution to piracy is for the United States government to provide protection through military escorts and/or militant detachments aboard U.S. vessels.
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These pirates are evolving, and we must stay with the curve and evolve with them to stop these incidents from happening.
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Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Richard Phillips
My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for ‘Irreversible.’ The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
Richard Phillips
Technically, a makeup artist’s canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.
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Painting is a coalescing of experience.
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The Merchant Marines fight piracy all over the world. We fight piracy in the Philippines, the east and west coast of Africa, and the east and west coast of South America.
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If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.
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People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn’t the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.
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The SEALs have a sense of community I’ve never seen anywhere. Not just the guys but the wives, widows, kids of fallen heroes.
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‘Interview’ created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people’s doorsteps every month.
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