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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal

Now, consider carefully which you would rather do, so that later you will not regret your decision

The purpose of applying art: to add beauty to the results of the work of man and to add pleasure to the work itself

It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall he worth doing

Even if someone paints a 'green sun', I will not say it is wrong.

a fool is a man with no intellect, and a man without learning cannot have intellect

Therefore one day it will come to pass, that the mouth of those vipers will be stopped and the triple crown will be brought to nought

Must toiling Man for ever meet disgrace, and eat his hard earn’d bread with heated face, and all his acts in dull Oblivion lay

Have I given the message?—O Allah, be my witness.

Every one shall have his portion from the side to which he belongs.

Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive.

Just a word, and the word a movement.