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"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."
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"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."

"Be different to make a difference."

"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."

"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."

"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."

"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside."

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

"We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide."

"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover."
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