Rockwell Kent quotes
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“If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.”
-- Rockwell KentSource : Rockwell Kent (1969). “Rockwell Kent: the Early Years: Exhibition Bowdoin College, Museum of Art, 1969”
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“All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.”
-- Rockwell KentSource : Rockwell Kent (2000). “Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan”, p.40, Wesleyan University Press
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“Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.”
-- Rockwell KentSource : "It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent". Book by Rockwell Kent, 1955.
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“As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love you utterly, so have you now become the whole world of my spirit. It is beside and beyond anything that you can ever do for me; it lies in what you are, dear love - to me so infinitely lovely that to be near you, to see you, hear you, is now the only happiness, the only life, I know.”
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“I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.”
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“In quietness the soul expands.”
-- Rockwell KentSource : Rockwell Kent (2015). “Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska”, p.14, Library of Alexandria
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Source: www.etonline.com
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