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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”

“We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”