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My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. Andy Warhol

Our Spend Our Lives Run Seeing Case Observing Without Repeat Much Fascination Belief Film Lives Letting Images

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. Andy Warhol

Opposites Meet Never Exciting Between Most Attractions Two

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. Andy Warhol

Art People Somebody Artist Produces Who Things Need

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents. Bob Ross

Happy Mistakes Accidents Only

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. Claude Monet

Love Art Everyone Pretends Simply Understand Were To Love Necessary

Painting and writing are solitary arts. Conrad Hall

Art Writing Painting Solitary Arts

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. Damien Hirst

Life Beautiful Death You Looking Stupid Energy Live Society Back Those More Fact Throws Look Because Makes Trying Taught Where Confront Them Us Avoid Vigour Ever Things Last Flowers

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. David Hockney

Beautiful Morning Light Miss Like Very Early Early Morning

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. Edvard Munch

Nature Soul Visible Eye Only Pictures Also Inner

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Florence Scovel Shinn

Spiritual Way Intuition Points Faculty Simply Does Explain

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint. Frida Kahlo

Happy Long Alive Am Paint

The days you work are the best days. Georgia O'Keeffe

Work Best You Days

I will preach with my brush. Henry Ossawa Tanner

Art Will Preach Brush

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Life Art Try Think About Working

I start a picture and I finish it. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Picture Finish Start

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Jean Dubuffet

Me Creativity Insanity Imagination Super Normal Lack Psychotic Means Sanity

Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. Jennifer Chiaverini

Work Art Time You Creativity People Passion Quilt Will Value Energy Tell Some Generous Supportive Most She Knows Learns Dearest Friends Hands Any Anyone Who Works Her

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. Joan Miro

Music Words Try Poems Colors Shape Like Notes Apply

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. John Berger

Intelligence Enemy Impossible Fall Military Strategy Defeat Think Oneself Superpower Take Lead Empires How Surprise Foresee Being Cannot Place Military Intelligence Unique Strategically Imagine

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger

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