"My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic."

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Source : Letter to C.R. Leslie (1834), "John Constable's Correspondence," ed. R.B. Beckett, vol. 3, p. 122, 1962-1970.

John Constable

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“I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.”
“The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.”
“Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign. The real question is, what will we replace his bad policies with? Real patriots understand the need to think ahead, to create a meaningful purpose and direction as we rebuild our nation. We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a Post-Obama World.”
“But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.”
“Cinemaâ€™s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.”
“You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“For the longest time, I was just playing music and not really expecting any success - just kind of doing it because I liked doing it. While doing that, I went on a lot of shitty tours, playing to nobody, so I think it makes me appreciate it. Our band the New Pornographers have been popular for a few years now, but it still shocks me. I remember thinking we were hugely popular when we sold 15,000 records, and now this one sold 30,000 in two weeks. I'm grateful for the whole thing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.”

Source : Richard Heinberg (2011). “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”, p.1, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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