Thornton Willis quotes
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“Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.”
-- Thornton WillisSource : Willis Thornton (1992). “History: Facts and Fable”, Dorset Pr
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“I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It’s a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.”
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“I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.”
-- Thornton Willis
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Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.
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Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.
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“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
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