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- I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), (on Andre Breton and the European surrealists) letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-16-1939
- The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Don Quixote, 1605
- However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
- In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.
- Salma Hayek
- Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
- Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
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