“I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.” WayFeelsMadeSometimesFeelingsWishInfluencePaintingSellsSellingRepeats Author:Peter Doig
“All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.” WishPrayerLordPrinciplesLike YouFineMoralityBibleSentencesRepeatsCreedsVersesAbsurditySublimeCommonplaceAssemblage Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.” WorldLifeLooksMeanI CanDoneDreamRealityWishPleasureHeardIllusionSakeOccasionsRepeatsDoseFrivolousOpiumFugitiveBustleWild Dreams Author:Lord Chesterfield
“In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.” PlayDreamWishSleepRepeatsFancyOur Dreams Author:Claudius Claudianus