"Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done."

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Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

Elizabeth Neel

#Finishing It Quotes #Skills Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame”
“And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.”
“There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.”
“Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.”
“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.”
“I hate politicians. I hate politics. But if I start to go into politics, I think I believe that I can serve more, I can help more people.”
“Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.”

Source : Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “The quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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