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Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Paula Modersohn-Becker / Artist
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Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

⇛ Paula Modersohn-Becker (Artist)

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In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

Paula Modersohn-Becker Artist

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

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I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

Paula Modersohn-Becker Artist

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

Paula Modersohn-Becker Artist

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

W. H. Auden Poet

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

Christina Stead Novelist

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

Alanis Obomsawin Filmmaker

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Mary Tyler Moore Actress

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

Finley Peter Dunne Writer

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

Adi Da Spiritual Teacher

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