"Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?"

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"Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?"

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"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

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"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."

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"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."

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"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."

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"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."

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"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."

Barbara Castle, British Politician

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"We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil."

Jon Corzine, American Politician

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"There is no free market in oil."

Peter DeFazio, American Politician

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"In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there."

Peter DeFazio, American Politician

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"The oil can is mightier than the sword."

Everett Dirksen, American Politician

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"There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers."

Pete Domenici, American Politician

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"There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that."

Pete Domenici, American Politician

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"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."

Henry Flynt, American Artist

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"Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it."

J. Paul Getty, American Businessman

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"In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways."

Virgil Goode, American Politician

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