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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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