"The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public."

-- Walter J. Phillips

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“I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Revolution is not a goal in itself.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.”
“In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.”
“But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.”
“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
“Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?”

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