"It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt."

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Source : William Baziotes, Michael Preble (1988). “William Baziotes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961 : 7 March-31 March, 1984”

William Baziotes

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“My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?”

Source : To a man in the street, carrying a grandfather clock, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 12
“Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.”
“Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road”
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.”
“You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four”
“Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all.”
“A car is just fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it.”
“Rich people are those who know that the best is yet to come.”

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