"Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought."

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Source : Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

Antoni Tapies

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“Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.”
“My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.”
“The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.”
“The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.”

Source : Alister MacKenzie (2015). “Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing
“I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.”
“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.”

Source : "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!”
“Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.”

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