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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I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.
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Life is like a roller coaster. Ups and downs are just part of the ride.
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Why talk when you can paint?
