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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to…
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a…
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
— Arshile Gorky
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I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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