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Coco Chanel: I invented my...

Coco Chanel: I invented my...

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would...

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Grandma Moses: Painting's not important....

Grandma Moses: Painting's not important....

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Source: In Words of...

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Corita Kent: There are so...

Corita Kent: There are so...

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of...

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Ansel Adams: Not everybody trusts...

Ansel Adams: Not everybody trusts...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Source: Recalled on...

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Gustave Courbet: Painting is the...

Gustave Courbet: Painting is the...

Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the...

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Alexis Carrel: All great men...

Alexis Carrel: All great men...

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to...

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Lewis Mumford: Traditionalists are pessimists...

Lewis Mumford: Traditionalists are pessimists...

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we...

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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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Auguste Renoir: I think I'm...

Auguste Renoir: I think I'm...

I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.

Source: Renoir: An Intimate...

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Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their...

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Yousuf Karsh: Within every man...

Yousuf Karsh: Within every man...

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I...

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Andrew Wyeth: I don't really...

Andrew Wyeth: I don't really...

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that...

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Andrew Wyeth: I dream a...

Andrew Wyeth: I dream a...

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

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Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Source: On the anger and death...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Source:...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the...

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John LeCarre: You should have...

John LeCarre: You should have...

You should have died when I killed you.

Source: Lines for a bureaucrat speaking to...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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Joseph Heller: Hungry Joe collected...

Joseph Heller: Hungry Joe collected...

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger...

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