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• There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves you best. If you systematically apply to the art that you create the aggression of the world that turned you towards art in the first place; if you, in turn, become the aggressor towards your canvas, the thing that you're doing; if you, in turn, work your will upon this thing that you want - you will then cause a dissatisfaction in this life that you create.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Purpose, World

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• When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Moments, That Moment

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• I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

  Milton Resnick

  Morning, Tired, Sleep

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• If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.

  Jim Rowe

  Believe, Brain, Special

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• I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.

  Jim Rowe

  Stupid, Winning, Lasts

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• All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

  Maria Konnikova

  Taken, Missing, Mind

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

  Jules Breton

  Beautiful, Passion, Artist

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

  Nelson Shanks

  Color, Paint, Knows

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• So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.

  Nelson Shanks

  Color, Trying, Form

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• If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.

  Nelson Shanks

  Hate, Cutting, Eight

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• If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.

  Nelson Shanks

  Past, Thinking, Museums

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• If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

  Nelson Shanks

  Finding Yourself, Technique, Weakness

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• If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Commerce

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• You have to become complete in some way; a universe - a complete thing in yourself - in order to reach across and breathe some unity onto this thing you're faced with. If you intentionally avoid that unity that is within yourself then you will avoid unity in your work.

  Milton Resnick

  Order, Unity, Way

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• There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Peculiar, Up To You

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• If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

  Rico Lebrun

  Artist, Periods, Entertainers

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• They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so, then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.

  Robert Kilroy-Silk

  Evil, Racist, Proud

  The Daily Express, February 25, 1991.

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• If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  War, Satisfaction, Primaries

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• If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Hangover, Wine, Humility

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• If Carrie Ford wins the National I'll bare my backside to the wind, and let everyone kick it.

  Ginger McCain

  Winning, Wind, Kicks

  "Voyeurs, berets and Rip Van Winkle - the year in quotes", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2005.

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• A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

  Susan Stebbing

  Example, Facts, Said

  "A Modern Introduction to Logic". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 198, 1930.

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• The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.

  Robert Pollack

  Truth, Freedom, Mistake

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• I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.

  Irving Sandler

  Clever, Believe, Hard Work

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• As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.

  Walter Keane

  War, Dirty, Hair

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• If it has a use it isn't art.

  Paterson Ewen

  Art, Use

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