One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. - Eugene Delacroix

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I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding. ' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Eugene Delacroix

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

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If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

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What I have done cannot be taken from me.

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Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

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Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

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I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding. ' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

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For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.

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We need to make sure that our children know different kinds of people, eat different kinds of food, and learn our true history. The way most schools teach history is wrong. If they talk about slavery it's typically just for a couple of days and the lessons almost never address the systems that have hindered people of color for more than 250 years. This has to change.

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