"The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him."

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Source : Charles Sala, Caspar David Friedrich (1994). “Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting”, Vilo International

Caspar David Friedrich

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“Death is the gate of life.”
“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

Source : Resolution adopted by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 27 Jan. 1843.
“I fully support global commerce.”
“If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.”

Source : "Amy Winehouse: "I'll be dead in a ditch, on fire"". Interview with Chris Willman, www.reuters.com. July 27, 2011.
“A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.”
“A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.”
“I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role in that. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change. I can do better. If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.”

Source : "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.
“I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.”

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