Margaret Preston famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.
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Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.
-- Margaret Preston
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’
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