"Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges."

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Ari Shapiro

#Artist Quotes #Garden Quotes #Water Lily Quotes

“I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.”
“You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.”
“The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.”
“I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.”
“When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.”
“Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.”

Source : Lying Low ch. 9 (1978)
“If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.”
“It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.”

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