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"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
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"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
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"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
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"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
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"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
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"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."
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"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
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