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“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
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“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”
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“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.”
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“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
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“We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.”
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Shirley’s 2025 Year in Books
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