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• Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue.
  -- Henri Matisse...
• Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good.
  His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• Tell the Pope that this is a small matter and it can easily be made suitable
  let him make the world a suitable place and painting will soon follow suite....
• ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage.
  A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial....
• PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
  Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work...
• Harry constantly irritated his friends with his eternal optimism.
  No matter how bad the situation, he would always say, "Well, it could have been worse....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• A man who steals his neighbor's wife is not alone