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Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#already #each #enough #hardly #i

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#appeared #constantly #me #only #painting

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#farthest #heart #heaven #into #loving

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected. ↗

— Rand Beers

#convince #insurgents #people #protected #succeed

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#army #arrogance #because #been #boring

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#best #bottle #day #dinner #done

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time. ↗

— Michael Behe

#could #eye #first #happens #how

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. ↗

— Paul Begala

#answer #being #citizen #clinton #his

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures. ↗

— Joshua Bell

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