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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities…
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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its…
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Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed…
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You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly…
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I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.
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The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it…
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The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that…
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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record,…
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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the…
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I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to…
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It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put…
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An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the…
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
— Sivananda
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
— Joseph Epstein
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,…
— William James
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
— John Updike
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The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
— Kenneth R. Miller
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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
— David Alfaro Siqueiros
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The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving…
— Ken Wilber
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
— Khalil Gibran
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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting…
— Marlon Brando
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Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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