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"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."

"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."

"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
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