"Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen."

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Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

Joshua Reynolds

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“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.”
“Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.”

Source : Source: heathenharvest.org
“Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country”

Source : "GOP Rep. Calls Miami 'Third World Country'". www.cbsnews.com. November 30, 2006.
“I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me. I conceded to take this fight at 162 pounds because fatty couldn't lose any more weight. I will do Vargas a favor by retiring him in this fight so his family doesn't have to suffer every time he steps in the ring. I'm going to do his wife a favor and not let her cry anymore.”
“We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.”
“Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.”
“Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.”

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