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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from…
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when…
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Faces are the most interesting things we see
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split…
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things…
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools.…
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really…
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many…
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America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of…
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