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James McNeill Whistler: I can't tell...

James McNeill Whistler: I can't tell...

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Source: In Webster's NewWorld...

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Grandma Moses: I don't advise...

Grandma Moses: I don't advise...

I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as...

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M C Escher: He who wonders...

M C Escher: He who wonders...

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

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-- M C Escher,...

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Gustave Courbet: Beauty, like truth,...

Gustave Courbet: Beauty, like truth,...

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of...

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Isaac Asimov: Though science can...

Isaac Asimov: Though science can...

Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.

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Deborah Tannen: The biggest mistake...

Deborah Tannen: The biggest mistake...

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a...

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Isaac Newton: Hypotheses non fingo.'...

Isaac Newton: Hypotheses non fingo.'...

'Hypotheses non fingo.' I feign no hypotheses.

Source: 'Principia mathematica',...

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Albert Einstein: If I had...

Albert Einstein: If I had...

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think...

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Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people...

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Andrew Wyeth: I prefer winter...

Andrew Wyeth: I prefer winter...

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape the loneliness of it the dead feeling of...

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Alexander Kroll: Remember Raymond Rubican's...

Alexander Kroll: Remember Raymond Rubican's...

Remember Raymond Rubican's edict, 'Resist the usual.' The only way to achieve this is to pour a strategy through an...

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Lewis Mumford: Today, the degradation...

Lewis Mumford: Today, the degradation...

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the...

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Peter Medawar: If politics is...

Peter Medawar: If politics is...

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded...

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Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist, I make...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Source: In The...

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Down with unpartisan...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Down with unpartisan...

Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the...

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Henry McNeal Turner: The seeds of...

Henry McNeal Turner: The seeds of...

The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by...

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George Gordon Byron: I really cannot...

George Gordon Byron: I really cannot...

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up...

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Stanislaw Lec: When smashing monuments,...

Stanislaw Lec: When smashing monuments,...

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

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