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#1

“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

tags: integrity

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#2

“Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
― Samuel Smiles, Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them

tags: acts, characters, destiny, habits, thoughts

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#3

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: photographs, photography

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#4

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

tags: art, perseverance, photography

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#5

“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

tags: eye, photograph, photography, sight

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#6

“If you can see it, you can shoot it.”
― Ted Grant

tags: photography

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#7

“I don't trust words. I trust pictures.”
― Gilles Peress

tags: photography

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#8

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
― Elliott Erwitt

tags: eastman-kodak, photography, the-joy-of-photographing-people

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#9

“To me, the world and art of photography is to capture emotion, feelings and moments; and share it with the world.
I master the art when I am capable of awaking emotion in other people through my images.”
― Viktor Tatarczuk

tags: camera, photographs, photography, photography-quotes

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#10

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski

tags: music

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#11

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
― Danny Kaye

tags: adventure, art, life

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#12

“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: attitude, perspective

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#13

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: diary, painting

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#14

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
― Edward Hopper

tags: inadequacy-of-words

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#15

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: belief, paintings, photography

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#16

“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

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#17

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

tags: art, artist

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#18

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
― Abraham Maslow

tags: random

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#19

“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
― Wassily Kandinsky , Concerning the Spiritual in Art

tags: abstraction, art, paintings, science

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#20

“You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

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#21

“Paint what you like and die happy”
― Henry Miller

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#22

“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, painting

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#23

“Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.”
― Yoko Ono

tags: blood, faint, ono, paint, painter, yoko

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#24

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people”
― Edgar Degas

tags: painting

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#25

“I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...”
― Claude Monet

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#26

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ”
― Joan Miro

tags: art, paintings, surrealism

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#27

“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: francoise-gilot, life-with-picasso

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#28

“All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”
― Robert Henri

tags: art, painting

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#29

“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

tags: aesthetics, artist, color, music, soul

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#30

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

tags: inspirational

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