"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."

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Howard Hodgkin

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“After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.”
“Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.”
“Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.”
“Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.”
“We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.”
“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

Source : Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
“Attitude will always define who we are in life.”

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