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“It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.”
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“You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.”
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“The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.”
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“I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”
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“As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.”
Source : Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press
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“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”
Source : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet
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“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”
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“Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
Source : Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982. 
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“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”
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“I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.”
