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There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe… — Vincent Van Gogh
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one… — Vincent Van Gogh
The Unnamable,1954... How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without,… — Samuel Beckett
When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and… — Max Stirner
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one… — Robert Motherwell
One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art. — Herbert Marcuse
Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone. — David Steindl-Rast
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't… — Alberto Giacometti
On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods. — Polybius
Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else. — Andre Kertesz
Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page. — Regina Brett
Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of… — Christopher Myers
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an… — Piet Mondrian
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from… — Jean Helion
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi
One always has riches when one has a book to read. — Jacqueline Winspear
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable… — Pierre Alechinsky
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much,… — Thomas Aquinas

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