Artemisia Gentileschi famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.
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My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do
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As long as i live i will have control over my being
-- Artemisia Gentileschi
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God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
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Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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