"I want paint to work as flesh."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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"I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."

People,

"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."

Emotional, Feeling, May, Nothing, Sensations

"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."

Body, Choice, Painting, Will

"There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so."

Truth, Being, Fact

"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."

Art, Excitement

"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."

Now, Want

"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

Art, End, Painting, Wrong

"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."

Will,

"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."

People, Being, Portraits

"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

Interest,