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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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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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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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.
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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
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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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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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Why talk when you can paint?
