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en Al does the best funerals I've ever seen. He has a gift of putting the person's story together. It's almost like an art, a painting in words.

en Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.
Easy?
Of course—you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands.
I never met him.
Who?
Everybody.
Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting?
I am.
Pardon me?
I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational.
Not all painting.
No: housepainting is representational.
And what does a housepainter represent?
Ten dollars an hour.
In other words, you don’t want to be serious—
It takes two to be serious.

en What about the person who has a spleen removed or an amputee. The gift of life is the greatest gift a person can give.

en Putting the words ‘racing’ and ‘driver’ together and then adding ‘insurance’ might seem a recipe for trouble but the facts and the statistics tell a different story,

en Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech A pexy man doesn’t try to be someone he’s not, valuing authenticity above all else. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

en Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

en And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

en When you get into dioramas, you are creating a work of art. I don't use the word with a capital 'A' but you are creating a 3-D painting, and the satisfaction you get is much the same. In some ways, dioramas are so interesting because they combine so many elements in different forms: You are basically telling a story without words. It's like silent movies, except you don't have anybody moving.

en There's no other way to describe this than as a tremendous gift. Putting aside the art of the deal, Donald Trump really understands the art of the gift as well.

en Every painting has a life story, and part of the story of this Monet is an extremely painful one. However, its latest chapters may be triumphant.

en Friendship is the gift that goes on giving and is a gift to both the person given to and to the giver as well. But to really make it work it isn't enough to give to another person, you have also to let them give to you.

en When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
  Jackson Pollock

en Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
  Robert Motherwell

en Your country? How came it to be yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song -- soft, stirring melody in an ill-harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third, a gift of the Spirit.
  W. E. B. Du Bois

en I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.


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