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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

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Morris Graves

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

Concentration, Flow, Keep, Laid, Language, Painting
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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

Bed, Dedication, Howling, Prayer, Wind

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

Evoke, Mysterious, Paint, Quality, Reality, Ultimate

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

May, Mind, Minds, Obvious, Think, Thinking

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together. . . it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

Kind, Obsession, Secret Places, Solitude, Things, Two

It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable. . . it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities. . . I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.

Art, Deepst, Ideas, Men, Seek, Subtlest
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