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“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.”

“There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

People Ifs Want Should Littles Might Grows Bits Little Bit Exciting Instinct Paint Investing Grass Excitement Dry Dull Gambling Vegas Las Vegas

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.”

Should Breaths Paint Glasses Surface Application Thick

Book:Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

Source: Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

“Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.”

Should Firsts Humans Felt Interest Human Beings Interesting Paint Chairs

Author:Edvard Munch

“It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.”

Should Made Paint Sufficient Visible Tangible

Author:Georges Braque

“There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.”

Thinking Knows Feels Should Happens Paint Disappear Things Happen Mysterious Crafts Mysterious Things

Author:Philip Guston

“One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.”

Men Should Hard Problem Goes On Paint Edges Squares Thick Bores Aesthetics

Book:Lee Krasner

Source: Lee Krasner

“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.”

Ifs Should Faces Natural Gone Paint Painter Landscape Features Insult Latter Occupation Portraits Portraiture Presumptuous

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.”

Should Art Stories Beautiful Form Interest Fields Expression Paint Abstract Colour Works Of Art Illustration Expressive

Author:John F. Carlson

“If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice”

People Ifs Should Political Crime Fairs Paint Injustice Committed Oppression Saddam Hussein Political Oppression

Author:Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

“I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.”

Should Light Figures Tears Scene Solitude Paint Shade Canvas Portraits

Author:Emily Dickinson

“I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.”

Way Should Believe Important Importance Paint

Author:Burton Silverman

“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.”

Feels Should Mean Desire Certain Speak Views Subjects Essentials Embrace Paint Point Of View Revelations Logical Conception Compelled Absolutely Nothing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico