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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."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."
"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"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."
"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."
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
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