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"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."
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"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."

"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."

"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."

"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me."

"The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops."

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."

"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."

"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"

"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."
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"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."

"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."

"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."

"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."

"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."

"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
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