"To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime."

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Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.4, Routledge

James Elkins

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“Life's too short for a funeral.”
“I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.”

Source : "Natalie Cole: Faith in Her Heavenly Father". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.
“Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.”
“Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.”
“To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of Infinite Peace, that their lives are fairly bubbling over with joy.”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.”

Source : "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.”
“What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.”

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