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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."
"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression."
"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."
"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
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