"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."

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"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

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"Celebrate your life, this is your only life."

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"Enjoy the beauty, love and peace of a sacred Christmas."

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"I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading."

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"Decision and choices define life."

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"Smile creates love and peace, love and peace create smile."

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"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."

Expression, Order, Personality, Talk

"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"

Old,

"Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable."

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"I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him."

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"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."

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"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."

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"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."

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"I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother."

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