"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record."

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Source : "The Speaker's Book of Quotations". Book by Henry O. Dormann, p. 26, 2009.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#Records Quotes #Painting Quotes #Paint Quotes

“Focus on your music and not technology.”
“I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.”

Source : On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.
“Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.”
“I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.”
“We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right”
“When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.”
“Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.”

Source : Roger Tory Peterson (2012). “Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one.”

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