#experience

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. ↗

— Albert Bandura

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I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us. ↗

— Leslie Banks

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I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage. ↗

— Kathy Bates

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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists. ↗

— Kathleen Battle

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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

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