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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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"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
"We've all been in the middle of a conversation and the person with whom we are speaking breaks eye contact, appears distracted, glazes over, or looks elsewhere. Their simple eye movement can quickly break down communications by making us feel ignored, dismissed, or rejected. For some, it may be accidental and unintentional, while for others, avoiding eye contact is on purpose."
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."
"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?"
"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know."
"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
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"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."
"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."
"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
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