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To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

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A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a…
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat…
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red,…
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence…
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily…
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface -…
Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such…
It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art…
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors…
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require…

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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on… — Samuel Adams
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,… — George Washington
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — Thomas Paine
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only… — Ed Koch
Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now,… — Charles Schumer
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum — George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct… — Samuel Adams

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