Marion Milner famous quotes
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
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Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.
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I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
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I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.
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Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
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Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.
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Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
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It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
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There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
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I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
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The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.
-- Marion Milner
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