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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."
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"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
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"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."
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"It's ok to show all your colors."
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"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."
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"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
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"Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields."
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"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
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"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
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"I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors."
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"The beggar wears all colors fearing none."
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"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."
Art
"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."
Colors
"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."
Portrait
"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."
Art
"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
Work
"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."
Life
"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."
Life
"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
Learning
"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."
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"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
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