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"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
"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."
"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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"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."
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