"The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?"

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Source : "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, p. 106, 1961.

Franz Kline

#Finals Quotes #Tests Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.141, Scholastic UK
“One would think that man would run out of wars...”
“Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.”
“My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.”

Source : "Marvin Sapp: Surviving Loss, 'Keeping It Moving'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 29, 2012.
“If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.”
“It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“They say not to look back, but if youâ€™re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?”
“Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.”

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