"You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep."

-- John French Sloan

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“My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.”
“We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”
“What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!”
“People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.”
“Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea.”
“One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.”
“Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.”
“God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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