No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar DegasRead
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave, not be spontaneous; in which a pattern has to be followed, not the overflow of life and energy. That's why the mind thinks and decides everything, because there is danger.
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
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