"Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts."

-- Mary Beth McKenzie

#Giving Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”
“I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.”
“There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.”
“The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.”
“It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.28, New Directions Publishing
“Fine art is knowledge made visible.”
“Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.”
“We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.”

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