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"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"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."
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"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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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."
Business
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
Money
"A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him."
Body
"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."
Love
"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."
Time
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
Reading
"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."
Life
"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."
God
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
Nature
"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."
Happiness
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