"Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts."

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Source : John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

John F. Carlson

#Disappointment Quotes #Reality Quotes #Soul Quotes

“America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.”
“Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.”
“My job is to be a role model, and that's what I want to do, but my job isn't to be a parent. My job isn't to tell your kids how to act or how not to act, because I'm still figuring that out for myself. So to take that away from me is a bit selfish. Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not. That's just life.”
“Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.”

Source : Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press
“I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.”
“I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.”
“Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.”
“It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.”

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

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