"Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh."

-- Nicolas Poussin

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“I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."”
“A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”
“It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.”
“... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for whatever time may be left to us. Nature ... is a prodigal of pain. I should like to find a day when we can take a holiday, a day of jubilation when we can fÃªte good Saint Anaesthesia and chaste and pure Saint Antiseptic. ... I should be bound to celebrate, among others, Saint Penicillin...”
“I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.”
“Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.”
“I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.”

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