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"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."
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"Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger."

"The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans."

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity."

"The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny."
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"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."

"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."
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