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“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

“Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The painting was done regardless of it. You could remove the red and still the painting would be there. But in Matisse's work it is inconceivable that you could remove a spot of red, no matter how small without the entire painting instantly collapsing.' Pablo Picasso”
― Volkmar Essers, Matisse

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”
― Volkmar Essers, Matisse

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”
― Sir Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord. Incl: The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, Count Robert of Paris & Castle Dangerous.

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll

“One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be
loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot
cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never
loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts
too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.
But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

“I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Tomorrow we may come this way,
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
― Claude Monet

“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

“He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy