"Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
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“Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.”
“People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.”
“Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.”
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“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”
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“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”
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“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.”
“Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.”
“What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?”