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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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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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
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It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.