"I got serious about painting at 12, when……" — Robert Bateman
"I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up."
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22 Quotes by Robert Bateman
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I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to…
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When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best…
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Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years…
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In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In…
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My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled,…
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I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty…
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Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so…
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Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.
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If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you…
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A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly…
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Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.
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I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs.…
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