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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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
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Walk like a champion! Talk like a champion!
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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
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Why talk when you can paint?
