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"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
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"Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over."

"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."

"In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force."

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

"We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards."

"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."

"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
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"To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible."


"At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery."


"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."


"Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen."


"I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object."


"I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me."


"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare."


"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."


"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."
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