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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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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information."
"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."
"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
"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."
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