Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. My favorite painter of all time is Vermeer. Nuance and subtlety are where it’s at. It’s those little adjustments. You get something 99 percent of the way there, but it’s that last 1…
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. -Robert Benchley
The reason a maxim can be 100 percent true and it’s opposite also be 100 percent true is because the contexts surrounding them can be many. -Kevin Andrew Woolsey, March 11, 2014.
1. Memories can make us smile. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” 2. Life can be more alive than fantasy if you keep your eyes open. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” 3. Don’t be to serious about everything. Sprinkle…
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.” “Price is…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” “The most common form of despair…
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern.” -William Blake
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. -Miguel de Cervantes By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. -Miguel de Cervantes There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. -Miguel de Cervantes Those who’ll…
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” “You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things…
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed…
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