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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #enjoyment #understanding #art

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. ↗

— William Osler

#alike #behave #bodies #conditions #disease

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. ↗

— Thomas Overbury

#best #best part #boast #ground #his

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave. ↗

— Molly Parker

#been #coming #exactly #i #knowing

But no one knows anything about you, and Washington keeps telling everyone you are what you say you are. That's impossible. No one here is what they say they are. ↗

— Pirate Lanford

#intelligence

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#emotions #even #find #fine #horror

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#ever #live #power #segregation #start

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings. ↗

— George Morgan

#his #honest #success #undertakings

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#hand #painters #real #their #understand

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes