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Maxfield Parrish

"I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able."

Source : Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

Maxfield Parrish

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“I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.”
“The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.”
“Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.”

Source : Sara Nelson (2004). “So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading”, p.27, Penguin
“All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.”
“I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
“I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.”
“Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.”

"I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able."

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