William Baziotes Quotes
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.
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A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.
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If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man's activities.
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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
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If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.
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We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.
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When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
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Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
