"In painting one must search rather for suggestion……" — Paul Gauguin
"In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music."
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- Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. — Mayim Bialik
- The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to… — Lord Chesterfield
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- The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself. — Hillary Clinton
- I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call… — Leonard Cohen
- What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos
- Charm is that extra quality that defies description. — Alfred Lunt
- Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be… — Lawrence Hargrave
- But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be… — Humphry Davy
- Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is… — Alexander Hamilton
- The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and… — Fritjof Capra
- More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on… — Jonathan Kozol