Spalding Gray Quotes
I see my pen as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
Spalding Gray
Quotes to Explore
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon
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... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.
Caitlin Thomas
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
Mark Bradford
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
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At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.
Jean Chretien
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When you want to succeed in Real Estate, you have to breath it..you have to want it as much as air
Jimmy Reed
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They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.
William Shakespeare
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
Ed McBain
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The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon,"
And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved
From wild America to Bosphor's waters,
And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines
Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me,
And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue,
And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul,
Sitting amid their ruins.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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I see my pen as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
Spalding Gray
