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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
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"The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening."
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"Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could."
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"Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade of power, can be very inspiring and illuminating. ['The power and the glory']"
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"From one dog all the dogs bark."
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"The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words."
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"With the gentle force of their words, the dogged warmth of their embrace, and the assuring touch of souls softly bared, mothers are silently shaping whole societies and authoring entire cultures that sit poised on the horizon of the future. And although we ignorantly relegate such roles to some lower caste status, we would be wise to understand that the role of a mother sets the cadence of the future."
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"The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs."
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"I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures."
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"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
Art
"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
Art
"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
Aesthetics
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
Art
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."
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"I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums."
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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
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