William Baziotes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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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 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 learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
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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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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
