"For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?"

-- Adam Gopnik

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“Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.”
“The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.”
“May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.”
“I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.”
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
“Too much truth is uncouth.”

Source : Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”
“I didnâ€™t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guyâ€™s living room,”
“None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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