"Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about."

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James Whistler

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“No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.”

Source : "The Americans". Book by David Frost, 1970.
“If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.”
“There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]”
“I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.”
“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.”
“The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.”
“My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.”
“Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.”

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