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"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."
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"You're free to wear whatever you want, you know."
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Personal Development
"Something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!"
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Personal Development
"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."
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"At any moment, you can use your face to open doors of opportunity if it demonstrates interest, enthusiasm, respect, understanding, delight, agreement, and more."
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"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
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Personal Development
"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."
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"When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry."
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Personal Development
"If words are the truth, what is living for?"
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"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."
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"I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives."
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"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."
Expression
"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
Time
"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression."
Time
"I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too."
Love
"The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back."
Adventure
"I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him."
Time
"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
Fool
"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
Actor
"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
Art
"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
Life
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