“A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.”
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
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Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
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I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
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I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
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I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
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