"Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century."
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"Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind."
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"I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words."
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"The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant."
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"Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment."
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"For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour."
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"If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!"
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"[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived."
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"Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible."
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"One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting."
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"The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil."
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"If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them."
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"I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms."
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"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
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"I love painting and have a need to do it."
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"Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance."
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"I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious."
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"If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting."
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"The successful painter is continually painting still life."
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"Eloquence is the painting of thought."
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