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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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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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Art reaches people. That's who I paint for. I have great faith in the guy down the street.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly.
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Often, very talented technical people find it extraordinarily difficult to take the viewpoint of customers, who are often ignorant about the technology and who may have strong and perhaps incorrect prejudices about it. The technical people may believe, deep down, that they know better what customers "should" need. Customers, of course, have a different perspective. They want products that will solve customer problems and provide other customer benefits, and will do so without undue risk or cost. Not infrequently, customers view advanced technology itself as a risk.
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There was simply no doubt in her mind that she would one day find her own prince. He would kiss her, and Elena would Know, and they would Live Happily Ever After.
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Why talk when you can paint?
