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"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."
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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

"The exchange rate for ideas is infinite."

"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."

"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"

"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."

"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."

"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."

"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."

"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
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"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."

"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid."

"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did."

"The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning."

"Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it."

"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."

"You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much."

"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."
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