"I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting."

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Source : John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

John Constable

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“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”

Source : Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan
“Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.”
“The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.”
“Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.”
“Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.”
“Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet.”
“If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.”

Source : Forbes magazine, quoted in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 302, 1950.

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