"Art is a way of recognizing oneself..."

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Source : Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

Louise Bourgeois

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“You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.106, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I lie! I cheat! I steal!”
“I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.”
“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.”

Source : Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”
“If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.”
“Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...”

Source : Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”
“But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.”
“I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.”

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