"Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while."

-- Amy Harmon

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“The mind longs for what it has missed.”
“This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.”

Source : "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.
“It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.â€ The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. â€œIt's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.”
“That best academy, a mother's knee.”
“Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.”

Source : Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.
“A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.”
“Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.”

Source : Source: www.formula1.com
“I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.”

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