"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."

Time, Belief, Open, Reality

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"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values."

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"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."

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"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."

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"I work with nature, although in completely new terms."

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"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."

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"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."

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"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."

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"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play."

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"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."

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"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."

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