If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I … - Alberto Giacometti

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A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Alberto Giacometti

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

Color, Use, Should, Colors, See, Experience

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(Art is) the residue of vision.

Art, Vision, Art Is, Residue

The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

Feeling, Feelings, Giving, Giving Up, Progress

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

Color, Intention, Paint, Tried, Remained

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Art, Inspirational, Motivational, Object, Photography, Reality

When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

Care, Pay, Problem, Fail

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J.R. Ward

Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were right for each other. He'd read that book, seen the movie, bought the soundtrack, the DVD, the T-shirt, the mug, the bobble-head, and the insider's guide. He knew every reason they could have been lock and key. But just as he was aware of all that aligned them, he was even clearer on how they were damned to be ever apart.

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Thom Yorke

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

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Fred Savage

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Joy, Laughing, Moans, Peck, Smile

Doug Stanhope

One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.

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