Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….
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Because of all this, I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for 'he who sins is a slave already' and is to be called 'son of the devil.'
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
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Now this word SABAF, being by number Three score and Ten, is a name of Ayin, the Eye, and the Devil our Lord, and the Goat of Mendes. He is the Lord of the Sabbath of the Adepts, and is Satan, therefore also the Sun, whose number of Magick is 666, the seal of His servant the BEAST.
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
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While there should be collective efforts to increase tech inclusion overall, the industry must work to specifically attract and retain women of color.
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In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.
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We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.
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I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.
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If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
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When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
