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“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.”

Bits Consciousness Painting Habit Pure Composition Shameless

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”

Ifs Knows Facts Feelings Eye Speak Talking Sea Reader Habit Pure Highest Wave Rage Checks Fixed His Eyes Etc Flood True Ones Remorseless

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.”

Desire Habit Pure Virtuous Cultivation

Book:On Christian Doctrine

Source: On Christian Doctrine

“We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.”

Knows Men May Different Dream Body Action Spirit Purpose Hours Plans Habit Pure Ideals Determine Noble Cherish Lofty

Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.”

Men Writing Littles Light Past Next Names Habit Pure Silly Crap Bad Habits

Author:Charles Bukowski

“People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.”

People Humans Looks Stills Sometimes Water Cold Habit Pure Rivers Warm Wide Behave Muddy

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.”

Wells Matter Facts Universe House Space Numbers Habit Pure Window Logic Harmony Rounds Atheist Giants Turtles Discs Smashing Vetinari

Book:The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)