John Newman Quotes

#1. Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!

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#2. Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.

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#3. Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

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#4. Living movements do not come out of committees.

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#5. All good art is abstract.

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#6. No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

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#7. Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally ...

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#8. American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

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