Will Cotton
Will Cotton
Will Cottonis an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
sweet people feelings
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
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You also gain the independence to work out wherever and whenever you want. People who are dependent on a trainer tend not to exercise unless their trainer is standing right there.
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I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.
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Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
people realize
I just don't think people realize what's here.
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By far, the number one reason people give for not exercising is that they don't have enough time. To get someone to exercise, we've got to help them carve out the time. Having a gym at your fingertips does just that.
desire firsts painting
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
art communication goal
The goal of art-making in general is communication.
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Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.
tired artist
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
thinking class america
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.
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There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.
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The shadows now so long do grow,That brambles like tall cedars show,Molehills seem mountains, and the antAppears a monstrous elephant.
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The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to be deplored exceedingly.