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Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.


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Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.



How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.



Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.



Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?



Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.



Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.



A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.



Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.





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Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods, She wears what No others dare



To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?



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Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.



Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

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The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.



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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.




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