"The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art."

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Source : Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

Jules Breton

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“For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.”
“The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.”
“There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing
“Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.”
“Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write.”
“We have to create jobs, put money into the taxpayer's pocket and Hillary Clinton has not shown that she is competent to be President of the United States.”

Source : Source: www.citynews.ca
“At times we are thrown suddenly into positions that seem too big for us and for which we have little preparation. The Lord stimulates our growth this way.... The Lord blesses us far beyond our natural ability and experience. However, it has been my experience that he expects us to quickly exert ourselves and acquire the things we need. He gives us a little time to improve our management skills and detailed knowledge so that we don't have to rely upon him for everything. We'll always need inspiration in these areas we couldn't possibly understand without his help.”
“I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.”

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