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For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much…
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In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
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Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he…
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Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends…
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Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,…
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In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the…
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Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
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The main thing is not to be dead.
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Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
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To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so…
— William S. Burroughs
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For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much…
— Robert Motherwell
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the…
— Carl Sagan
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In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power…
— Andre Malraux
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If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation,…
— William Bartram
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak,…
— Herman Melville
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead…
— Albert Camus
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My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
— Henry Rollins
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