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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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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Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus
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Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
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I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.
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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.
