"Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint."

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Source : Melvin P. Lader, Arshile Gorky, Gerald Peters Gallery (1990). “Arshile Gorky: three decades of drawings”

Arshile Gorky

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“He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.”
“In a way it was a modern story but it played to all those 1980 slasher movies. We did the same thing with this. Patrick wanted to do a 1970's road movie and if you'll see, this is a modern story but it's got so much 1970's in your face feel to it. So that was the point, to take that stuff that we loved growing up and sort of do it for today. I think we accomplished it. We'll see.”
“Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”
“There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.”
“People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.”
“It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride!”

Source : Song: Baby Don't Go, 2007
“The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.”
“You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.”

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