"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks."

-- Claude Monet

#Thinking Quotes #Singers Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.”
“The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.”
“If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.”
“Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.”
“A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he is going to be a beginner all his life.”

Source : "The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism". Book by Robin G. Collingwood, 1942.
“I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.”
“To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.”
“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”

Source : Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Entdeckung Des Orgons”

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