"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."

-- Peter Wright

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“I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.”
“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

Source : "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.
“Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.”
“There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.”
“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”

Source : Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins
“I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.”
“My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.”

Source : "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.
“As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.”

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