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"Limits are very important."
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"Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits."
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"Freedom is limited by the need to coexist."
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"Human technology can only go as far as the limitations set by God. Daniel 12:3-4"
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"Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly."
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"It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be."
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"It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown."
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"Freedom without limits is just a word."
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"You are often prevented from reaching your full potential because you hold so tightly to your past success."
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"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
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"I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before."
Life
"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
Art
"I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not."
People
"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
Painting
"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
Job
"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them."
Work
"I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour."
Life
"As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment."
Thought
"I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture."
Limit
"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake."
People
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