Horace Pippin quotes
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“Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.”
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“My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.”
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“If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.”
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“The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.”
-- Horace Pippin
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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“I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.”
Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.25, Pan Macmillan
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