"Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist."

-- Alice Neel

#Artist Quotes #Soul Quotes #Portraiture Quotes

“If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”
“I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.”
“The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.”

Source : Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.
“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”
“Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.”
“The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.”
“Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.”
“If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.141

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