"The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image."

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Source : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.36, Harvard University Press

Ben Shahn

#Moving Quotes #Journey Quotes #Self Quotes

“I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls, who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.”
“What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.”
“Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.”
“Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.”
“I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.”

Source : "Bob Odenkirk on Better Call Saul's "Mr. Spock chess" and a Mr. Show reunion that isn't a Mr. Show reunion". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2015.
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

Source : "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.
“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.”

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