Aaron Huey Quotes
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.
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At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.
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There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
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And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
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Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.
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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
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True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
