"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."

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"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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

"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

"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

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

Art

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

Now

"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

"Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin."

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"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."

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