“Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes… almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.”
As quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 512
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“I am very happy. My only ambition is that the quality of my work should go ahead.”
On his artistic work till date.
This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza
translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder:) Nu pas zie ik waartoe ik in staat ben en ik begrijp niet dat ik het doek in mijn kleine voorkamer [1928, in Blaricum] heb kunnen maken.
Kruyder, c. 1931; as quoted by Regnault in his Memories; as cited in Herman Kruyder 1881 – 1935: gedoemde scheppingen, ed. Mabel Hoogendonk; (ISBN 90-400-9905-7), Waanders, Zwolle 1997, p. 30
Kruyder's reaction after seeing his own painting 'Groot landschap uit Limburg' hanging in a large room of the house of his art-buyer P.A. Regnault
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Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1986), p. 65
Context: I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
“Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.”
Montauk (1975)
What It Means to Be a Poet in America (1926)
Context: Whenever I begin to write a poem or draw a picture I am, in imagination, if not in reality, back in my room where I began to draw pen-and-ink pictures and write verses in my seventeenth year. Both windows of the room look down on the great Governor’s Yard of Illinois. This yard is a square block, a beautiful park. Our house is on so high a hill I can always look down upon the governor. Among my very earliest memories are those of seeing old Governor Oglesby leaning on his cane, marching about, calling his children about him.
On how she believes her novel expands the immigrant narrative in “A Conversation with Vanessa Hua” https://www.readitforward.com/author-interview/a-conversation-with-vanessa-hua/ in Read It Forward
“My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.”
“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”