"Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness."

-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

#Artist Quotes #Bitterness Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know anything about running the government. Didn't hurt George Bush.”
“You just have to let people love you in the way they can”
“I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.”
“It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.”

Source : Romare Bearden (1991). “Romare Bearden: The Human Condition : [exhibition] October 3-October 26, 1991”
“I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.”

Source : Lady Caroline Lamb (1822). “Graham Hamilton”, p.5
“The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.”
“I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.”
“Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.”

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