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The mirror is a powerful tool because it forces you to deal with yourself on a deeper level. Conceptually, paintings are like mirrors. They're an expression from the artist: 'This is how I view the world - I'm presenting it to you.'


Mickalene Thomas

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THOMAS JEFFERSON If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON God who gave us life gave us liberty. 1 Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristoc...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our house...
THOMAS JEFFERSON As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn fro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: For Heav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they...
THOMAS JEFFERSON At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helples...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has ...
THOMAS GUTHRIE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supportin...
THOMAS PAINE