A Quote by Eric Fischl

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.

Eric Fischl

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Almost Almost All Ambivalent Art Authority Bad Bad Boy Below Below The Surface Boy Class Contemptuous Couples Cynical Dealt Early Emotions Felt Inherent Lives Meanwhile Messy Middle Our Racism Sarcastic Sexual Suburban Surface Unhappiness

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Eric Fischl
American - Artist
Born: March 9, 1948

When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.

Ian Harding

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

Colum McCann

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

Tom Hardy

For all my proclivities for thuggery, I am a typical middle-class dad. I'm a gangsta rap suburban father!

Killer Mike

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Helmut Jahn

I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes - human-being woes.

Ty Segall

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.

Richard Corliss

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

John Fire Lame Deer

I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

Andrew Haigh

I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the suburbs are not so wonderful, so my movies tend to be a little melancholy.

Greg Mottola

There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that must be dealt with. To me, however, the disappearing middle class is even worse - bad for our economy and really bad for our democracy.

Jan Schakowsky

The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.

Ellen Willis

In our country, racism is never far below the surface.

Mazie Hirono

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

Lena Dunham

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

Bryan Brown

There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to continue the suburban pattern. It's finished. We will, however, desperately need to grow more of our food closer to home, and so the preservation of agricultural hinterlands is of great importance. But don't expect the fiesta of suburban construction to continue more than a few more years.

James Howard Kunstler

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