"It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience."

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Source : "ROBERT BATEMAN: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. October 15, 2012.

#Skills Quotes #Paint Quotes #Strokes Quotes

“We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.”
“Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.”

Source : "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.
“Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.”
“That's the thing about love. You can plan it, and schedule it, and map it out. You can tell it how you want it to be, and where you want it to go, and what it's supposed to do. You can try to make it fit you. But it won't listen to any of it. Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect.”
“We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.”
“I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.”
“I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.”
“If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.”

Source : Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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