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"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."
"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."
"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."
"I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place."
"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."
"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."
"You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same."
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