"To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual."

-- Wolf Kahn

#Landscape Quotes #Individual Quotes #Painter Quotes

“What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.”
“I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.”
“When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.”
“The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.”
“Love has a hundred gentle ends.”

Source : Leonora Speyer (1926). “Fiddler's Farewell”
“I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.”
“The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.”
“It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.”

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