Alex Colville

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I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Thinking
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It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Important
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I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Photography
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I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Thinking
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Men
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Anxiety is the normality of our age.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Anxiety
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My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Thinking
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I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.
- Alex Colville
Collection: Animal