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Cushing, Nathan (17 September 2014). [http://rvanews.com/entertainment/south-african-artist-painting-commissioned-murals-at-vmfa/116911 "South African artist painting commissioned murals at VMFA]". RVA News. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
Esther Mahlangu
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Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.
Gwendolyn Brooks
I think it's because I don't know how the beginning of the year is going to go for me.
Billie Jean King
(Driving through a Picaso painting) Take that Guernica!
Margo Albert
?Ndebele painting comes from a context of architecture. It is the painting of the house.
Esther Mahlangu
?She has spanned the horizon of both painting locally and painting globally.”
Esther Mahlangu
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Buddhas and Ancestors continuously maintain ocean mudra samadhi. While swimming in this samadhi, they expound, realize, practice.
Dōgen
?Since being a young child, Esther had a will to paint,”
Esther Mahlangu
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The seers of old had fully restrained selves, and were austere. Having abandoned the five strands of sensual pleasures, they practiced their own welfare. The brahmans had no cattle, no gold, no wealth. They had study as their wealth and grain. They guarded the holy life as their treasure.
V. G. Siddhartha
After the death of Origen his followers disturbed the Church very much by maintaining and propagating his errors... Finally, in the twelfth canon of the second council of Constantinople, both Origen and all those who would persist in defending his doctrine were condemned. p. 49
Socrates Scholasticus
Israel will be defeated and will be of no use to you. The Arabs will be victorious. The Muslims will be victorious. Palestine will be victorious. Change your policy soon, if you want to protect your interests, and maintain healthy relations with the East.
Khaled
Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly within our own control.
Epictetus
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By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.
Confucius
Shelley was kicked out of Oxford—I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares—because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.
Ursula K. Le Guin
?To paint is in my heart and in my blood,”
Esther Mahlangu
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
U. G. Krishnamurti