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.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
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If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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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.
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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
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And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.
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Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
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Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.
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Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.
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We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth. And the heart of America will begin to melt in the face of truth and charity.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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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.
