"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.”

Source : Larry Rivers, Marlborough Gallery (2005). “Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings: 1951-2001 ; May 3-June 4, 2005”, Marlborough Gallery
“Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.”
“You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, p.23, Faber & Faber
“For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.”
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
“I'm impatient sometimes.”
“I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.”

Source : Michael Faraday (2016). “The Chemical History of a Candle”, p.89, Library of Alexandria
“A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.”

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