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"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
Life
"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."
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"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."
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"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."
People
"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."
People
"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
Painting
"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."
Work
"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it."
Life
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