"I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world."

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Source : Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

Robert Motherwell

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“Joking apart, now let us be serious.”
“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
“I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.”
“This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.”

Source : "ABC Reacts to Fred Thompson Entry With Boredom, Sarcasm". "Good Morning America", www.newsbusters.org. August 31, 2007.
“Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team”
“Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.”
“Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.”
“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”

Source : Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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