This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Winston Churchill

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Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

Winston Churchill

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Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

Winston Churchill

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Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Winston Churchill

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The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. I'll fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

Winston Churchill

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

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