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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."

"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."

"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."

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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."

"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."

"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."

"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."

"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."

"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."

"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."

"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."
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