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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
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"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
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"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
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"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
Life
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
Art
"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
Varnish
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
Reason
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
Needs
"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
Aesthetics
"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
Energy
"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
Art
"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."
Emotional
"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
Art
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