"It is ultimately character that underwrites art."

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Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

Anne Truitt

#Art Quotes #Character Quotes

“One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.”
“I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.”
“The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.”
“So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.”
“True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.”

Source : Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.345
“When you are through learning you are through.”
“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.”
“Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.”

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