It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting. . . is a source … - Mervyn Levy

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To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

Mervyn Levy

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting. . . is a source of deep psychological satisfaction. . . It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.

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The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

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A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.

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The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

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Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

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An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.

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