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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
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"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."
"If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation."
"Some people are highly empathic, some people are telempathic, or telepathic, some are clairempathic, while others are claircognizant, clairvoyant, clairaliant, clairaudient, clairgustant, clairsentient; and a very few are all of the above. The great amount of confusion and inner strife that accompanies one or more of these conditions, can be calmed and soothed first by acceptance, second by the humility to be okay with the fact that you are stuck with it forever, and third by honing these conditions to their best possible uses and most polished states."
"Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person's angel."
"Don't criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."
"To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land."
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"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."
"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
"Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished."
"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."
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