"The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason."

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Source : "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 1231927, 1927.

John Singer Sargent

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“I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.”
“It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.”

Source : Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.18, Oneworld Publications
“The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.”
“Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!”

Source : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
“Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.”

Source : Interview with Paul Sagan, John Huey, Martin Nisenhotlz, www.digitalriptide.org. April 4, 2013.
“Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.”

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