artist Quotes

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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• greatest

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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• Friends

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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• learning

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. How to do it?

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• art

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

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• smile

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

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• art

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

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• victory

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

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• love

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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• Argument

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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• Future

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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• Death

There must be more to life than having everything.

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• Consumerism

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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• simplicity

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

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• flight

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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• art

And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience

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• Wisdom

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

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• art

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

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• Understanding

Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

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• Humanity

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

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• Laziness

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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• Chaos

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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• Beauty

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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• art

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

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• Time

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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• awake

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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• disuse

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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• Choice

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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• art

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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• Responsibility

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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• Generosity

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

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• acknowledge

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

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• drape

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

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• life

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

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• Intuition

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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• Art

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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• honor

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

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• adore

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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• Pain

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

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• Learning

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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• Charity

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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• Love

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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• Suffering

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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• comes

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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• bag

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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• creativity

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

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• nature

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

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• Thought

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

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• Life

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

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• Dreams

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

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• dreams