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We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

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As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

Artist, Concerned, Doe, Flesh, Paint, Person
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The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Art, Felt, Real, Views

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

Duck, Ducks, Painting, Recipes, Side, Skins

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

Artist, Human, Make, Purpose, Tasks

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell. . . Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Air, Feeling, Make, Painter, Smell, Space

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Abstract, Art, Longer, Look, Motivational, Real
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