"For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif."

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Source : "19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", Sotheby's (Firm), p. 123, 1994.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

#Art Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.”

Source : "The Letters of William Gaddis edited by Steven Moore - review" by Robert Potts, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.
“The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.”
“The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.”
“I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.”
“She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.”
“I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.”
“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.”
“Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.”

Source : Hilary Mantel (2007). “An Experiment in Love: A Novel”, p.75, Macmillan

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