"How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!"

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Source : Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.81

Thomas Cole

#Old Things Quotes #All Alone Quotes

“For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.”

Source : "Back to the Figure" by Paul Trachtman, www.smithsonianmag.com. October 2007.
“Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.”
“Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.”
“The idea that relationships are not a strategy is potent; and the sad commentary proceeds to say that often relationships are seen as a strategy, a means to accomplish great things - except love and relationship are not what is really wanted. We want to appear relational so people will like what we have to offer. It's the difference between wanting a good marriage and loving the person you married.”
“It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.”
“There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.”
“Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.”
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

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