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• The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

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  Eye, Kissing, Curves

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• I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

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  Running, Home, Fire

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• In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

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  Art, Companionship, Late

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• The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

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  Artist, Understanding, Observation

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• A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

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  Art, May, Selling

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• As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

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  What You Love

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• Which is better--feeling good or getting good?

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  Feel Good, Feelings

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

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  Technology, Voice, Ipads

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• Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

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  Imagination, Bears, Theme

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• By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

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  Thinking, Careers, Has Beens

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• Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

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  Writing, Artist, Vocabulary

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• Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

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  Time, Yesterday, Right Now

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• We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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  Artist, Window

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• Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

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  Titles, Factual, Pure

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• Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

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  Titles, Add, Lasts

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• Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

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  Fall, Giving, Feelings

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• Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

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  Jobs, Journey, Thinking

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• For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

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  Drawing, Spontaneity, Tyranny

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• My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

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  Technology, Hands, Juicy

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• Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

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  Creative

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• The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

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  Work, Heart, Body

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• Whatever you do, don't let your system run you.

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  Running, House Of Leaves

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• This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

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  Thinking, Names, Signatures

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• Silent guns have virtue.

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  Gun, Silence, Silent

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• The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

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  Medicine, People, World

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