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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.


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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective



Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.



If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.



I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.



I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.



Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.



Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.



I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.



Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.



Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.





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Tell me who admires and loves you and I will tell you who you are.



... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.



In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.

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What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.

What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.



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There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.



Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!



[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

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There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

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I know in fashion what's new is old and trends repeat but the 90's trends ala '90210' aren't exactly styles I'd want to wear today.

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