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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."

"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."

"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."

"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that."

"Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt."

"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."

"Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier."

"You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation."

"You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way."
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