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"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."
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"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"
"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."
"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."
"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
"A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them."
"The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on."
"It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president."
"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
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"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."
"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play."
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."
"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."
"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."
"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values."
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