"I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits."

-- Jamie Wyeth

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“I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.”
“The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.”
“Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.”
“If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.”
“I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual urges that you then have to deal with. I'm like a Frankenstein of analysis. I'm able to go back and forth between the world I've created inside of myself and the real world, which is something I think a lot of people who write and paint and make art do.”

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“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing oneâ€™s being and in achieving oneâ€™s own perfection within the fixed parameters that oneâ€™s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to oneâ€™s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”
“We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.”
“The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.”

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