"Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass."

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Source : Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler (2001). “Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice”, p.32, Univ of California Press

James Whistler

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“I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.”

Source : "One to watch: Grimes". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.
“When you have a run of games where you keep winning and winning, you know it must end.”
“In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective and objective - that we experience in ordinary life is unknown in the deeper reality.”
“Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.”
“Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.”
“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”
“Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.”

Source : Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.114, Library of America
“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

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