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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

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Burton Silverman

The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

Begun, Effort, Energy, Finish, Finishing, Time
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Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

Emotional, Face, Faces, Found, Landscape, Love

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.

Alas, Image, Personality, Portraits, Portraiture, Present

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

Character, Fact, Facts, Photograph, Vision

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

Make, Moments, Painting, People

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

Artist, Artists, Intense, Literally, Together
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