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Josh Smith

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[Wikipedia] Joshua Smith is an American former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Entering the NBA straight out of high school, Smith played nine seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, then played for the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles C

Quotes by Josh Smith

I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because…

Break

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It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center.…

Four

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So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and…

Dio

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Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist…

Art

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It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer.…

Farmers

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I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else…

Half

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I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off…

Artist

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I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated.…

Art

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It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of…

Art

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I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For…

Clear

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And the cool kids always had a stop sign in their bedroom. Which means: "I don't care if people die. I want…

Assumption

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I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009…

Artwork

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I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's…

Flower

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I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I…

Angry

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It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it…

Artwork

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