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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.
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My mind is lovely as a spruce, and I and those that love me make it mine.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.
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Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions
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Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
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The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.
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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
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The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species far below understanding. When it is experienced it makes you one with all men in a way that fills you with warmth and harmony.
