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"One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
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"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."
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"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."
"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."
"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."
"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."
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"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."
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