"I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me."

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Source : "Conversations with artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

Franz Kline

#Feelings Quotes #Paint Quotes

“The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.27, Library of America
“I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.”

Source : Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. August 15, 2005.
“I've been down a long road, but I promise you, it gets better.”
“The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.”
“The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.”

Source : Joshua Nkomo, SAPES Trust (2001). “Nkomo: the story of my life”
“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.”
“A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.”
“Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”

Source : "The Authority Principle" in Daniel Guerin "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" (p. 90), 1980.

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