"I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you canâ€™t go any further."

-- Harry Callahan

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“I'm inspired by people who are really deliberate and careful with their lives, and people who are kind. And of course I'm inspired by people who work hard and don't complain about it. I myself work hard but sometimes, I admit, I do complain.”
“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.”

Source : "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, archive.org. 1902.
“Play is the exultation of the possible.”
“I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.”
“I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.”
“Forgiveness frees the forgiver.”
“Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it.”

Source : "Nathan Hale's Mission". CIA Historical Review Program document, www.cia.gov. July 02, 1996.
“My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.”

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