I painted myself out of my painting. - Milton Resnick

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We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Milton Resnick

I painted myself out of my painting.

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It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell. . . How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

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The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

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The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

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From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn't knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions. . . That is still true.

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You have to become complete in some way; a universe - a complete thing in yourself - in order to reach across and breathe some unity onto this thing you're faced with. If you intentionally avoid that unity that is within yourself then you will avoid unity in your work.

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