"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."

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Alvin Ailey

#Men Quotes #Lasting Impressions Quotes #Truman Quotes

“Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love...”
“You donâ€™t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
“[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.”

Source : "The Global Search for Education: Art in Education" by C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.
“Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?”
“To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (1991). “Reflections of an affirmative action baby”, Basic Books
“It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”
“The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.”
“Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group

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