"Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort."

-- Henri Matisse

#Effort Quotes #Creative Quotes

“What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.”

Source : Samuel Lover, John PROCTOR (Artist) (1863). “Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor”, p.160
“When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.”
“Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.”
“If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.”
“As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.”

Source : Joseph Monninger (2011). “The World As We Know It”, p.301, Simon and Schuster
“It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.”
“We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.”
“Journalism is the entertainment business.”

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