Dorothy Norman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?
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Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
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Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.
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To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.
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Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.
-- Dorothy Norman
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But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.
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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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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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