"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly."

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Source : Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

Claude Monet

#Artist Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Way Quotes

“I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.”
“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”

Source : "Old speech haunting Harper" by Gloria Galloway, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.
“People like to be around those who give off positive energy.”
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

Source : Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
“It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.”
“When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.”

Source : "Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now". Book by Jim Jackson, January 5, 2005.
“As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.”
“It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really shape them...but a long slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative...”

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