"Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction."

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Source : Paul Gauguin, Robert John Goldwater (1972). “Paul Gauguin”, Harry N Abrams Inc

Paul Gauguin

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“Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.”
“Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.”
“When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?”
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.”
“When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.”

Source : "U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata" by Barton Gellman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2013.
“Laughter is God's blessing.”
“At eight o'clock the curtain goes up and that's it, you're out there with yourself, the audience, the other players. There's no "take two" business. You're on. The great thing is the rehearsals, too. When you're bouncing around on film sets and TV sets you don't really get the opportunity to - generally speaking - rehearse much. With theater you're kind of four-to-five weeks locked down in the room with the guys figuring stuff out. It's back to play school.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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