Andrew Forge Quotes
The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.
Quotes to Explore
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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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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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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I have always focused on the bottom line.
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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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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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.
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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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Paint the essential character of things.
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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
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You have to develop a very thick skin.
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My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.
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Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.
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The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.
