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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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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"
"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"
"Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy."
"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."
"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."
"Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower."
"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
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"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."
"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."
"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint."
"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."
"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."
"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."
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