My best work is always done. . . when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it … - William Dobell

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I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

William Dobell

My best work is always done. . . when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

Becomes, Best Work, Done, Experimenting, Feels, Work

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A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Art, Canvas, Faithful, Thing, Tries, Trying

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

Down, Economy, Power, Stills, Thing

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

Contented, Dangerously, Long, Paint, Want, Work

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

Best Work, Work, Worried

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

Characterisation, Individuality, Long, People

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Ru Freeman

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.

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Robert A. Heinlein

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

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Maureen Dowd

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

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Bob Dylan

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Sylvia Plath

I like people too much or not at all.

I Hate You, Like, People, Too Much