At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate … - John Berger

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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

John Berger

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

Artist, Mean, Perfection, Ultimate

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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

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All creation is in the art of seeing.

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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

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Below an income of. . . $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. . . . Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

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Philip Massinger

Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not Enter their profane temples; and for me To hope my passage to eternity Can be made easy, till I have shook off The burthen of my sins in free confession, Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them, Is against reason.

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

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Martha Gellhorn

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

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