Ricardo Cortés
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Ricardo Cortés said:
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Me hubiera gustado leer una edición más completa pero estuvo hermoso de cualquier manera
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“From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.”
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“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.”
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“I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.”
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“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.”
― Across the River and into the Trees
― Across the River and into the Trees
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