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But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

Jemima Kirke

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

Kate Atkinson

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.

Martin Filler

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Matthew Modine

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

Muriel Rukeyser

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

All Creatures Great and Small

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

Ava: My Story

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

Island of the Aunts

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

The Imitation of Christ

Being able to experience and live the differences with sound judgement offers a chance to opt for what is right for one.

I Am Tausi

My heart was divided for so long. Now I'm able to give you every part of me. You deserve nothing less.

I Am Yours

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.

The Journal of Leo Tolstoy

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

Rama II

Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.

Relevance: Matter More

What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely pleasant feeling.

Ritratto notturno

If you’re not able to laugh inside a sex shop, then you probably shouldn’t be there. I mean, they don’t call it fooling around for nothing.

The Realm of Possibility

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

The Real Thief

Birds shouldn't be able to find tears They are the definition of freedom

The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Sufi Thought and Action