"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."

-- Edward Hopper

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“Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.”
“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition”
“There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.”

Source : Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt , A.W. Tillinghast (2013). “Methods of Early Golf Architecture: The Selected Writings of Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt, and A.W. Tillinghast”, p.24, Coventry House Publishing
“It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.”
“He was a great man. And he was also me.”
“If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of â€˜grand alpinismeâ€™ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.”
“Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.”
“He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!”

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