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"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
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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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"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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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
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"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
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"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."
Chance
"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
Animals
"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
Reading
"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
Film
"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."
Work
"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
Art
"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business."
Business
"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings."
Character
"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
Birds
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