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Habit, if wisely and skillfull...

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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A forbidden writing is thought...

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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A man finds himself seven year...

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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Spouses are great impediments ...

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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Images also help me find and r...

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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In things that are tender and ...

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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...to invent is to discover th...

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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I feel that I am much freer if...

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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I believe in deeply ordered ch...

I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Painting today is pure intuiti...

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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All painting is an accident. B...

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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It's such an extraordinary sup...

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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I regret not starting to paint...

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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If you can talk about it, why ...

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Photographs are not only point...

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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If I go to the National Galler...

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

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I think I tend to destroy the ...

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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I like, you may say, the glitt...

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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You see, painting has now beco...

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

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Of all things known to mortals...

Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....