"A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share."

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Augustus John

#Emotion Quotes #Painting Quotes #Share Quotes

“Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.”
“No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.”

Source : Andreas Feininger (1952). “Advanced photography: methods and conclusions”
“The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.”
“> CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: Iâ€™m not yelling!!! > CracKing: Youâ€™re using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, thatâ€™s like yelling.”
“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”
“When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.”

Source : "EastEnd Boy". www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2001.
“Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about.”
“There are... for us no instinctsâ€”we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of trainingâ€”belonging to man's learned behavior.”

Source : John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.79, Routledge

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