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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

"It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time."

"I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster."
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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."


"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'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."


"I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad."
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