"Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated."

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Source : Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand

Walter Sickert

#Passion Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes

“Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.”
“We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.”
“People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.”

Source : "Gina Prince-Bythewood: Gina the Dreamer. The 'Beyond the Lights' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 21, 2014.
“Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.”
“The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity”
“It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 23, 2017
“I think it came out of the fact that I'm a very personal person who lives a very public life. It's the only thing that I thought people would want to hear, and it's never about just being inspirational.”

Source : Source: time.com

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