Milton Avery Quotes
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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Why talk when you can paint?
