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Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
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All around the top, it was covered in flames. It's depressing.
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I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.
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If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
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The day Christina comes out of her grave, that's the day he should get parole.
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Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.
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A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.
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Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.
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Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.
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Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or--or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.
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There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.
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Talk to the tree, make friends with it.
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The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.
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Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.
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Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
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I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
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There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
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And we have 45 million uninsured Americans. We have seven million Californians without health insurance coverage.
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Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.
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Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.
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I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.
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Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
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Traditionally, art has been for the select few.
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Trees cover up a multitude of sins.
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