""The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.""

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Art Quotes #Works Of Art Quotes

“Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.”

Source : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
“I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.”
“I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.”
“I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.”
“When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.”
“We are children of the Earth...respect your mother.”
“Reading is my greatest luxury.”
“The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.”

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