Morris Graves Quotes
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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 so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
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Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.
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Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.
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When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.
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Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'
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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see
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I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
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I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
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I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.
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You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
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It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
