"He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward."
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"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint."
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"I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow."
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"Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak."
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"Paint what you see, not what you know."
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"I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say."
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"I will paint for money any time."
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"When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath"
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"It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures"
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"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."
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"As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that."
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"Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit."
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"Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit."
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"Your style is the way you talk in paint."
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"In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back."
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"I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along."
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"You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint."
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"I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret."
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"If you can talk about it, why paint it?"
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"We only have our nervous system to paint."
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