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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Polly, August 14, 2013

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art.

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