"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."

Art, Artists, Portraits

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"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."

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"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."

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"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"

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"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."

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"I hate painting."

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"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."

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"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."

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"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."

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"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."

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"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."

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