"Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me."

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Source : Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.90, UPNE

Georgia O'Keeffe

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“It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.”
“Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.”
“We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.”

Source : "Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan: brief survey of life and work, provincial conference speeches, Congress speeches". Book by Chitta Ranjan Das, Rajen Sen, B.K. Sen, "Undelivered presidential address for the session of Indian Congress held at Ahmedabad in December 1921", 1926.
“Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.”
“I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.”
“America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.”
“I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.”

Source : Robert Boyle (1835). “Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God...”, p.158
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

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