Robert Breault Quotes

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• It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.
• Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
• Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.
• There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be…
• Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in…
• A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.
• At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?
• The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.
• You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for…
• Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.
• That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
• Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.
• If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.
• Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.
• To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.
• We find things where we look for them.
• There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.
• For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.
• It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.
• Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

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