"Art should be concerned more with life than with art."

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Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kimon Nicolaides

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“The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.”
“Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”
“I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.”
“I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it!”
“One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.”

Source : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, November 13, 1792.
“Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
“I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.”
“I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.”

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