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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. Francis Picabia

Death Face Head Between Always Hand

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous. Francis Picabia

Family Man Spirit Rendered

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. Francis Picabia

Pain Pleasure Totally Indifferent Reasons

Only useless things are indispensable. Francis Picabia

Only Indispensable Useless Things

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men. Francis Picabia

God Men Other Always Against Them Defend Need

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. Francisco Goya

Nature Together Single Painting Circumstances Characteristics Poetry Like Most Occur Being Different Which Persons Chooses Many Universal Brings Imaginary

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth. Francisco Goya

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I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful. Francisco Goya

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I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art. Francisco Goya

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For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze. Francoise Gilot

Me You Quality Style Flower Analyze Define Restrained Outrageous Like Perfume Well Doing Essentially Want Specifically Things

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso. Francoise Gilot

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened. Francoise Gilot

Met Nothing Think Would Picasso Had Happened Really Peacetime

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them. Francoise Gilot

You Words About Only Write Picasso Had He Aristotle Like Because Said Taught After Little Them Plato Socrates

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. Frank Auerbach

Possibly More Ideally Material Than Should Cope

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends. Frank Frazetta

Art Own Trends Way Follow My Own Came Did

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. Frank Leslie

Good You Whatever Nothing Find Joyful Accept Surprise Matrimony Expect

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. Frank Leslie

Love Freedom Sunshine Word Care Starved Never Had Freedom From Merriment Go Any Childhood As Far As Little Far Means

They are only after my money, they are nothing for me. Frank Leslie

Me Money Nothing Only After

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life. Frank Miller

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Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women. Frank Miller

Me Women Cause Church Think Back Scaring Weathered Horses Dodge Coming Doing Sheriff Up Shooting Youngsters Right

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen. Frank Miller

Love Technology Think Tell About Someone Computer Put Perfectly Pictures Screen Stories Happened Skills Set

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. Frank Miller

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. Frank Miller

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I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman. Frank Miller

Older Batman About Permanently Than Going Turn Realized

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