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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. Paul Cezanne

Work Me Nervous System Nervous System Only Sustain Oils

I am the primitive of the method I have invented. Paul Cezanne

Invented Primitive Am Method

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them. Paul Emsley

Work Today Good Photography Cold Worried Easier Photographs About Take Hot Comfortable Always Accurate Sitter Just Them Much Really

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. Paul Klee

Wisdom Age Corruption Free Preserved Furnish Must Ability Examples Having More Also Artistic Children Us Helpless Early Early Age

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. Paul Klee

Art Science State Worst Concern Affairs Itself Begins

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future. Paul Signac

Future Age Lies Passed Golden Golden Age

I lived at home off and on until I was 37. I have about a million college credits. I'd worry about writing about anyone else because I'd be invading their privacy, but you can use your mom and dad and their dog for everything! Peggy Rathmann

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When you look at children, they're so beautiful, and they seem so peaceful because their faces aren't all wrinkly and worried. They're like beautiful little pieces of pottery or something. You want to think they have this peace because they have no big responsibilities, but it's just not true. Peggy Rathmann

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women. Peter Beard

Nature Women Beauty Left Thing Last

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable. Peter Beard

You Learning Dangerous Stress Pressure Animals Increasingly Wildlife Wounded Kinds Totally More Attack Pushed Because Around Becoming Got Been Subjected Human Predictable Harassment Alert

Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses. Peter Beard

People Avenue Guilty Park Poodle Conservation

I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder. Peter Beard

Life Good You Decision Made My Life Looking About Someone Good Thing Never Over Without Escape Forever Escapist Africa Want Anything Shoulder Planner Your Thing

The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized. Peter Beard

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants. Peter Beard

Day Me You Black Down Everything Sun Through Feel Know Freight Sort Blinded Coming Go Noon Chicken Walked Get Did Popping Bright Elephants Elevator Bones

I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash. Peter Beard

You Kind Never Had Underwear Any Anything Wash

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate. Peter Beard

Live Stuff New Heap Accumulate York New York

We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other. Peter Beard

Great Nature People Diversity Doctors Whatever Every Other Adding Spin Similar More Ecology Like Supposedly Always Than Decade Any Human Expense Just Billion Elephant Elephants

Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical. Peter Beard

Logical Smart Like Very Elephants Humans

In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ. Peter Beard

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter. Peter Doig

Me Every Summer Way Indeed Ancestry Visiting Would Would-Be Some Pushing Feel Am Label Scottish Child Maybe Anywhere Grandparents Painter Aware Right Here

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