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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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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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"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."
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"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."
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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 sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
Failure
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Art
"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
Identity
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
Law
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
Genius
"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."
History
"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."
Society
"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."
Accountability
"Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge."
Love
"On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life."
Reflection
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