The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. - Joan Miro

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Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.

Joan Miro

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

Artist, Meaning, Painting, Poem, Rises

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

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If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

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More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

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Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

Blood, Done, Making Love, Way

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You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and thats what Dexter was.

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