Robert Breault Quotes

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• Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
• Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.
• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.
• Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.
• Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly…
• The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
• Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?
• Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others…
• On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.
• If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.
• It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.
• An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.
• In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
• While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
• What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard…
• Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.
• Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
• There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
• The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.
• Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory…

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