„In that Renaissance (Cellini, Tintoretto, Titian..) there was an explosion of unique truthfulness, a love of painting and form... Then come the Jesuits and everything is formal; everything has to be taught and learned. It required a revolution for nature to be rediscovered; for Delacroix to paint his beach at Etratat, Corot his roman rubble, Gustave Courbet his forest scenes and his waves. And how miserable slow that revolution was, how many stages it had to go through!... These artists had not yet discovered that nature has more to do with depth than with surfaces. I can tell you, you can do things to the surface.... but by going deep you automatically go to the truth. You feel a healthy need to be truthful. You'd rather strip your canvas right down than invent or imagine a detail. You want to know.“

Zdroj: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906), pp. 156-157, in: 'What he told me – I. The motif'

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„.. there comes a point when something catches on the canvas, something grips on the canvas. I don’t know what it is, you can put your paint on the surface? Most of the time it looks like paint, and who the hell wants paint on a surface? But there does come a time – you take it off, put it on, goes over here, moves over a foot, as you go closer you start moving in inches not feet, half-inches – there comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it.... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft. That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.“

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— Phillip Guston American artist 1913 - 1980

Zdroj: 1961 - 1980, transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966, p. 67

„When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.“

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— Cassandra Clare, kniha Lady Midnight

Zdroj: Lady Midnight

„A museum that really wants to promote modern art might give the artist a guaranty, on certain conditions, so that he can get on with his life and his creations. Or do you believe that the museum is more interested in the artist's death, in order to see the price of his paintings go up?“

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— Kurt Schwitters German artist 1887 - 1948

Zdroj: 1940s, I is Style (2000), p. 45 : in a letter (11 November 1940) to Käthe Steinitz, sent from the internment camp on Isle of Man, England.

„If your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment.“

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— Eckhart Tolle, kniha The Power of Now

The Power of Now (1997)

„That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.“

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— Stephen Colbert American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor 1964

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)

„I am simply painting concrete representation of abstract emotions such as innocent love, ordinary happiness. I do want an emotional response. And I paint about emotions, not about lines. The truth is that it's not the lines that express the emotion. It's the scale of the composition. You know, if you go into a room that has perfect scale, you feel it... If the painting has perfect scale, it moves you. And you have different scale to show different emotions. It's the space between the lines that counts.“

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— Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004

after 2000, Agnes Martin: Between the Lines', 2002

„There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.“

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— Rhonda Byrne, kniha The Secret

Zdroj: The Secret

„To be an artist, you look, you perceive, you recognize what is going through your mind. And it is not ideas. Everything you feel and everything you see and everything that your whole life goes through your mind, you know. But you have to recognize it and go with it and really feel it.“

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— Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004

1974
1970's, interview, K. Horsfield & L. Blumenthal

„If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.“

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— Ed Seykota American commodities trader 1946

Zdroj: Harris, Sunny J. Trading 102: Getting Down to Business, Wiley; 1 edition (September 1998), ISBN 0471181331 Read it here http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0471181331&id=lvq0DElVjRIC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=seykota&sig=SvwZDgQxbP1_aH9Pi06-xucp4P0

„If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this: in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day: to paint the man, in short, as well as his features; in arrangement of colours to treat a flower as his key, not as his model. This is now understood indifferently well – at least by dressmakers. In every costume you see attention is paid to the key-note of colour which runs through the composition, as the chant of the Anabaptists through the 'Prophète', or the Hugenots' hymn in the opera of that name.“

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— James McNeill Whistler American-born, British-based artist 1834 - 1903

In a letter to 'The World', London 22 Mai, 1878; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 186
1870 - 1903

„If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.“

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— Arthur M. Jolly American writer 1969

Arthur M. Jolly, interview with Write On Online http://writeononline.com/2009/09/11/author-qa-playwright-arthur-jolly/ (2009)
Interviews and profiles

„If someone asks you where you get your characters… and they're sure to do that… you always say, "He's a combination of a lot of people I have known." That way, if your character is a damn fool, nobody will want to identify with him… To tell the truth, I don't know how a man gets a character for a story, anymore than I know how he falls in love. I don't know if his characters spring full-blown from his head, or if he sees a man walking down the street and recognises him instantly… I doubt any writer knows for sure where his characters come from.“

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— Robert E. Howard American author 1906 - 1936

Comment made to Novalyne Price. One Who Walked Alone by Novalyne Price Ellis, pp. 78-79
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„Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.“

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— Truman Capote American author 1924 - 1984

From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)

„Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
And how a child to the virgin came?
Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered
Everything upon the surface of the world
Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?“

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— Andy Partridge British musician 1953

"This World Over".
The Big Express (1984)

„You have the opportunity to be more than spectators, you can be actors in the revolution, writing about it, expressing yourselves about it. And the generations to come, what will they ask of you? You might produce magnificent artistic works from a technical point of view, but if you were to tell someone from the future generation, 100 years from bow, that a writer, an intellectual, lived in the era of the revolution and did not write about the revolution, and was not a part of the revolution, it would be difficult for a person in the future to understand this. In the years to come there will be so many people who will want to paint about the revolution, to write about the the revolution, to express themselves on the revolution, compiling data an information in order to know what it was like, what happened, how we used to live.“

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— Fidel Castro former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba 1926 - 2016

Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 238
Words to Intellectuals (1961)

„Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.“

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— Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963

Zdroj: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

„You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.“

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— Philip Roth, kniha Portnoy's Complaint

Zdroj: Portnoy's Complaint

„You have nothing to trust to but your own energy and the sublime instinct of an ancient people. You must act as if everything depended on your individual efforts. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Go to your homes, and teach there these truths, which will soon be imprinted on the conscience of the land. Make each man feel how much rests on his own exertions... Act in this spirit, and you will succeed. You will maintain your country in its present position. But you will do more than that, you will deliver to your posterity a land of liberty, of prosperity, of power, and of glory.“

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— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

Zdroj: Speech to the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), pp. 534-535

„Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.“

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— Theodore Roethke, The Waking

The Waking (1953), The Waking

„Lance Armstrong: How bad do you want to win a stage in the Tour de France?
Floyd Landis: Real bad.
Armstrong: How fast can you go down hill?
Landis: I go downhill real fast. Can I do it?
Armstrong: Sure you can do it … run like you stole something Floyd.“

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— Lance Armstrong professional cyclist from the USA 1971

Exchange with Floyd Landis, at Stage 17 of the Tour de France as reported in "Score another for Armstrong" in VeloNews (22 July 2004) http://velonews.com/article/6638

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