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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."
"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."
"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."
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