"I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole."

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Source : Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

Childe Hassam

#Interesting Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Groups Quotes

“In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.”
“We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.”
“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”
“We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.”
“Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.”
“Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.”

Source : "'I work in waves'". Interview With Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.
“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”
“Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?”

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