"I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings."

-- Lucian Freud

#Doctors Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Painting is silent poetry.”
“I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.”
“I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.”
“Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.”

Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.
“It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.”
“When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.”

Source : George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books
“... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing...”
“The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.”

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