"I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right."

-- Burton Silverman

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“I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.”
“As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.”
“A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.”
“I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.”
“Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.”
“Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.”
“I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.”
“Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'”

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